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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) Rockhaven.
(b) The Magic Mountain.
(c) Silvercrest.
(d) Saranac Lake.

3. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1856.

4. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1889.

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. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

2. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

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

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

5. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

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