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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1679.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1671.

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

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

5. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Early 18th century.
(b) Early 19th century.
(c) Mid-19th century.
(d) Late 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

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

3. How many organs can TB affect?

4. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

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