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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. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 17th century.

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

3. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 11, 1820.
(b) July 19, 1820.
(c) July 27, 1820.
(d) July 3, 1820.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

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

4. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

5. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Insarov, the hero in Turgenev's On the Eve, get TB and die?

2. How was TB romanticized by the mid-eighteenth century?

3. How did Sontag see people treated who had cancer, and why?

4. How did "romantic agony" (29) derive from tuberculosis and its metaphors?

5. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

6. What does Sontag reveal about metaphor and tuberculosis (TB) and cancer?

7. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

8. At the time the book was written, what did many people believe about cancer?

9. Which economic spheres are affected by tuberculosis and by cancer?

10. What does Sontag want to debunk about illness as a metaphor in her book?

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