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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1800s.
(c) Last 200 years.
(d) Last century.

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

3. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1865.

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

5. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 15th century.
(d) 16th century.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

3. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

4. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

(see the answer key)

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