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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?
(a) Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
(b) Massachusetts General Hospital.
(c) Mayo Clinic.
(d) Cleveland Clinic.

2. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Argos.
(b) Megara.
(c) Baris.
(d) Thebes.

3. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Rejected.
(b) Snubbed.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Shunned.

4. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Christianity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?

3. What does Sontag call illness?

4. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

5. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

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