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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Adulation.
(b) Affection.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Love.
2. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Dissolute.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Depraved and lascivious.
(d) Hedonic and intermperate.
3. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Exposes weakness.
(b) Does not knock before it enters.
(c) Tears down defenses.
(d) Barges in the door.
4. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?
(a) 24.
(b) 26.
(c) 18.
(d) 19.
5. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1800-1801.
(b) 1790-1791.
(c) 1780-1781.
(d) 1799-1800.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Alice James die from cancer?
2. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?
3. What type of mark was it to be sad?
4. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
5. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the metaphor of TB provide for two contradictory applications?
2. How were metaphors of TB broken up in the twentieth century?
3. How might the name of a disease seem to have a magic power?
4. How was TB seen as a disease of passion?
5. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?
6. At the time the book was written, what did many people believe about cancer?
7. What example does Sontag provide of sex being prescribed to tuberculars as therapy?
8. When and why was it possible to separate the definitions of cancer from TB?
9. When was it possible to separate the conception of TB and cancer?
10. Why does Sontag believe that cancer patients were not told about their illness, but patients with cardiac disease were told about their condition?
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