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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Infraction.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Hopeless and fatal.
(b) Intractable and capricious.
(c) Unmanageable and deadly.
(d) Stubborn and incurable.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

2. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

3. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

4. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

5. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

(see the answer key)

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