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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

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

4. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

5. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

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