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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He embraced love.
(b) He repressed his sexual nature.
(c) He embraced his sexual nature.
(d) He withdrew from love.

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of restraint.
(b) Disease of repression.
(c) Disease of inhibition.
(d) Disease of suprression.

3. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) Night-side of life.
(b) A knock on the door.
(c) Death tiptoeing.
(d) A walk on the wrong side of the street.

4. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Barges in the door.
(b) Tears down defenses.
(c) Exposes weakness.
(d) Does not knock before it enters.

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 4th stage.
(b) 3rd stage.
(c) Last stage.
(d) Middle stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?

2. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

3. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

4. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

5. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?

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