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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Shunned.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Snubbed.

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

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

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

5. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) The Human Mind.
(b) A Psychiatrist's World.
(c) Main Against Himself.
(d) The Vital Balance.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

2. When did Stendhal write Armance?

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

4. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

5. What is the main symptom of TB?

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