2. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?
(a) Odor of rotting flesh.
(b) Odor of the graveyard.
(c) Odor of manure.
(d) Odor of carrion.

3. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Inward burning.
(b) Being enflamed.
(c) Inward flame.
(d) Being ablaze.

4. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1873.

5. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1403.
(b) 1386.
(c) 1411.
(d) 1398.

6. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Shunned.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Snubbed.

7. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1911.

8. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Passion.
(b) Fervor.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Vitality.

9. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) Middle stage.
(b) 3rd stage.
(c) Last stage.
(d) 4th stage.

10. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He withdrew from love.
(b) He embraced his sexual nature.
(c) He repressed his sexual nature.
(d) He embraced love.

11. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Tears down defenses.
(b) Exposes weakness.
(c) Does not knock before it enters.
(d) Barges in the door.

12. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Love affair.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Uninhibited sex.
(d) Philanthrophy.

13. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Lawyer.

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

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