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1. What does Sontag call illness?

2. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

3. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

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

5. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

6. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

7. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?

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