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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Rome.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Naples.
(d) Corsica.

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

3. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He gave up.
(b) He remained unhappily married.
(c) He withdrew from life.
(d) He yielded to resignation.

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

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

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

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

8. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1386.
(b) 1398.
(c) 1411.
(d) 1403.

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

10. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) A knock on the door.
(b) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(c) Night-side of life.
(d) Death tiptoeing.

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

12. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1741.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1737.
(d) 1759.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

5. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

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