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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 Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1528.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1617.
(d) 1602.

2. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Romania.
(d) Hungary.

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

4. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Jesse James.
(b) Doc Holliday.
(c) Pancho Villa.
(d) Billy the Kid.

5. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Dissolute.
(b) Hedonic and intermperate.
(c) Reckless and sensual.
(d) Depraved and lascivious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

2. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

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

4. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

5. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

(see the answer key)

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