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Preface - Chapter 1

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

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

3. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) 50 percent of the population.
(b) Almost everyone.
(c) Everyone.
(d) 95 percent of the population.

4. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) How illness as been used as a metaphor.
(b) The topography of illness.
(c) Why illness is a metaphor.
(d) The geography of illness.

5. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?
(a) Cirrhosis and diabetes.
(b) Heart disease and diabetes.
(c) Tuberculosis and cancer.
(d) Pulmonary disease and Alzheimer's.

6. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last 200 years.
(b) 1700s.
(c) Last century.
(d) 1800s.

7. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffective.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Inefficacious.

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