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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) Nations.
(b) Kingdoms.
(c) Principalities.
(d) Dominions.

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1890.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

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

3. When did Stendhal write Armance?

4. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?

5. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

(see the answer key)

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