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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1627.

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

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

4. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Affection.
(b) Love.
(c) Adulation.
(d) Devotion.

5. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1882.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

3. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

4. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

5. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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