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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 16th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 14th century.
(d) 15th century.

2. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) August 1917.
(b) October 1917.
(c) November 1917.
(d) September 1917.

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

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

5. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Liver.
(b) Colon.
(c) Stomach.
(d) Lung.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

2. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

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

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

5. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?

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