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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) Saranac Lake.
(b) The Magic Mountain.
(c) Rockhaven.
(d) Silvercrest.

2. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He remained unhappily married.
(c) He gave up.
(d) He withdrew from life.

3. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Set apart.
(b) Isolated.
(c) Connected.
(d) Involved.

4. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

5. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Herpes.
(c) Chlamydia.
(d) Gonorrhea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?

2. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

3. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

4. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

5. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

(see the answer key)

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