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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 Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) April 1924.
(b) June 1924.
(c) March 1924.
(d) May 1924.

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Vicious and unrelenting.
(b) Fierce and unyielding.
(c) Savage and ferocious.
(d) Ruthless and secret.

5. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

3. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

4. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

5. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

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