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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Ineffective.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Inefficacious.
(d) Incompetent.

4. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Larceny.
(b) Crime.
(c) Theft.
(d) Thievery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

2. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

4. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

5. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

(see the answer key)

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