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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Plague.

2. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Stomach.
(b) Lung.
(c) Liver.
(d) Colon.

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

4. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?
(a) Invasive.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Incursive.
(d) Combative.

5. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Munich.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

3. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

4. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?

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