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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Late 18th century.
(b) Early 18th century.
(c) Early 19th century.
(d) Mid-19th century.

2. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) Death tiptoeing.
(b) A knock on the door.
(c) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(d) Night-side of life.

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

4. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Congestion.
(b) Breathlessness.
(c) Wheezing.
(d) Coughing.

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Naples.
(b) Palermo.
(c) Venice.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

2. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

3. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

4. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

5. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

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