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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Utopianism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Fanaticism.

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

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

5. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) Saranac Lake.
(b) Rockhaven.
(c) Silvercrest.
(d) The Magic Mountain.

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

7. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1780-1781.
(b) 1790-1791.
(c) 1800-1801.
(d) 1799-1800.

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

9. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Zest.
(b) Vigor.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Passion.

10. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?
(a) Pulmonary disease and Alzheimer's.
(b) Heart disease and diabetes.
(c) Cirrhosis and diabetes.
(d) Tuberculosis and cancer.

11. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1885.

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

13. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) Everyone.
(b) 95 percent of the population.
(c) 50 percent of the population.
(d) Almost everyone.

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

15. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He repressed his sexual nature.
(b) He withdrew from love.
(c) He embraced love.
(d) He embraced his sexual nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

2. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?

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

4. What type of mark was it to be sad?

5. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

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