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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Larceny.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Crime.
(d) Theft.

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

3. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Plague.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Smallpox.

4. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 110 pounds.
(b) 99 pounds.
(c) 115 pounds.
(d) 105 pounds.

5. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Pernicious.
(b) Contagious.
(c) Endemic.
(d) Infectious.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was streptomycin discovered?

2. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

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

4. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?

5. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?

(see the answer key)

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