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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 compare illness and being well to?
(a) Principalities.
(b) Kingdoms.
(c) Dominions.
(d) Nations.
2. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Late 18th century.
(b) Early 19th century.
(c) Mid-19th century.
(d) Early 18th century.
3. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 1.
(b) 11.
(c) 2.
(d) 25.
4. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Hopeless and fatal.
(b) Stubborn and incurable.
(c) Unmanageable and deadly.
(d) Intractable and capricious.
5. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffective.
(b) Inefficacious.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Ineffectual.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Stendhal write Armance?
2. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
3. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
4. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
5. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
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