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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?
(a) Damocrates.
(b) Antipater.
(c) Galen.
(d) Zopyrus.

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1890.

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

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

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

6. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 110 pounds.
(b) 105 pounds.
(c) 115 pounds.
(d) 99 pounds.

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

8. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) Change the vision.
(b) Re-imagine it.
(c) De-stigmatize it.
(d) De-mythicize it.

9. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Love.
(b) Adulation.
(c) Affection.
(d) Devotion.

10. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Stubborn and incurable.
(b) Hopeless and fatal.
(c) Unmanageable and deadly.
(d) Intractable and capricious.

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

12. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1899.

13. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Reckless and sensual.
(b) Dissolute.
(c) Hedonic and intermperate.
(d) Depraved and lascivious.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

2. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?

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

4. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?

5. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?

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