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1. What does Sontag call illness?

Night-side of life.

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

Kingdoms.

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

Everyone.

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

How illness as been used as a metaphor.

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

Tuberculosis and cancer.

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

Last century.

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

Ineffective.

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