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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Dominions.
(b) Principalities.
(c) Nations.
(d) Kingdoms.

2. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Adulation.
(b) Love.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Affection.

3. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?
(a) Tony.
(b) Willy.
(c) Martin.
(d) Matthew.

4. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?
(a) Ravages of resentment.
(b) Ravages of frustration.
(c) Ravages of bitterness.
(d) Ravages of vexation.

5. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Crab.
(b) Croak.
(c) Gripee.
(d) Crustacean.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

2. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

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

4. What does Sontag call illness?

5. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?

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