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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do disease metaphors judge society?
(a) As authoritarian.
(b) As out of balance.
(c) As repressive.
(d) As autocratic.

2. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) Yale University.
(b) University of California.
(c) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

3. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Fierce and unyielding.
(b) Savage and ferocious.
(c) Vicious and unrelenting.
(d) Ruthless and secret.

4. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 30, 1820.
(b) November 19, 1820.
(c) November 1, 1820.
(d) November 23, 1820.

5. How did Machiavelli believe that "proper statecraft . . . can prevent a fatal disorder"?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Sagacity.
(c) Foresight.
(d) Prescience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

2. What is the main symptom of TB?

3. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

4. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?

5. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

(see the answer key)

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