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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) Main Against Himself.
(b) A Psychiatrist's World.
(c) The Human Mind.
(d) The Vital Balance.

4. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Endemic.
(b) Contagious.
(c) Infectious.
(d) Pernicious.

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. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?

2. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

3. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?

4. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

5. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?

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