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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. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Venice.
(b) Naples.
(c) Palermo.
(d) Florence.

2. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Late 18th century.
(b) Early 19th century.
(c) Early 18th century.
(d) Mid-19th century.

3. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Fervour.
(b) Gusto.
(c) Ardor.
(d) Emotion.

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Savage and ferocious.
(b) Fierce and unyielding.
(c) Ruthless and secret.
(d) Vicious and unrelenting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

2. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

3. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

4. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

5. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

2. How was TB seen as a disease of passion?

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

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

5. What is the history of the use of a synonym for TB?

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

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

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

9. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

10. How did a character in The Magic Mountain explain symptoms of disease?

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