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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Depraved and lascivious.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Hedonic and intermperate.
(d) Dissolute.

2. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) March 1924.
(b) May 1924.
(c) April 1924.
(d) June 1924.

3. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Islam.

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

5. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 99 pounds.
(b) 110 pounds.
(c) 115 pounds.
(d) 105 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

2. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

3. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

4. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

5. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?

(see the answer key)

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