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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Fanaticism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Utopianism.
(d) Idealism.

2. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Horror.
(c) Panic.
(d) Dread.

3. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Croak.
(b) Crab.
(c) Gripee.
(d) Crustacean.

4. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Hopeless and fatal.
(b) Stubborn and incurable.
(c) Intractable and capricious.
(d) Unmanageable and deadly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

2. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

3. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

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

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

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