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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) 50 percent of the population.
(b) Everyone.
(c) 95 percent of the population.
(d) Almost everyone.

2. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1737.
(c) 1768.
(d) 1741.

3. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Philanthrophy.
(b) Love affair.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Uninhibited sex.

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

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1679.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?

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

4. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

5. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

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