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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Panic.
(c) Horror.
(d) Dread.

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

3. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?
(a) Sterilization practices.
(b) Decontamination practices.
(c) Sanitation practices.
(d) Disinfection practices.

4. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1516.
(b) 1489.
(c) 1495.
(d) 1503.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

2. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

3. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

4. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

5. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

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