View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?
(a) Willy.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Martin.
(d) Tony.

3. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Infraction.
(b) Encroachment.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Breach.

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1627.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1611.

5. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Savage and ferocious.
(b) Fierce and unyielding.
(c) Ruthless and secret.
(d) Vicious and unrelenting.

6. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1495.
(d) 1516.

7. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Exposes weakness.
(b) Barges in the door.
(c) Tears down defenses.
(d) Does not knock before it enters.

8. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?
(a) 24.
(b) 18.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

9. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) June 1924.
(b) April 1924.
(c) March 1924.
(d) May 1924.

10. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1939.

11. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1795.

12. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) The Will to Power.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) Untimely Mediations.
(d) Human, All Too Human.

13. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) January 1828.
(b) April 1828.
(c) March 1828.
(d) February 1828.

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

15. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Panic.
(b) Horror.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Dread.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

3. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

4. What is the main symptom of TB?

5. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 341 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample