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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1781.

2. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Accountant.

3. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Incompetent.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) Inefficacious.

4. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1862.

5. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?
(a) Odor of the graveyard.
(b) Odor of rotting flesh.
(c) Odor of manure.
(d) Odor of carrion.

6. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Inward burning.
(b) Inward flame.
(c) Being ablaze.
(d) Being enflamed.

7. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?
(a) Scofula.
(b) Wasting disease.
(c) Consumption.
(d) White plague.

8. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Culture.
(b) Refinement.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Breeding.

9. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Doc Holliday.
(b) Billy the Kid.
(c) Pancho Villa.
(d) Jesse James.

10. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?
(a) Desert.
(b) Mediterranean.
(c) South Pacific.
(d) Italy.

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

12. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1917.

13. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) Last century.
(b) 1800s.
(c) Last 200 years.
(d) 1700s.

14. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Uninhibited sex.
(c) Philanthrophy.
(d) Love affair.

15. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 15th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 14th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

2. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?

3. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?

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 Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

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