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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 did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1794.

2. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?
(a) Disinfection practices.
(b) Sanitation practices.
(c) Sterilization practices.
(d) Decontamination practices.

3. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 25.
(d) 1.

4. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1516.
(d) 1503.

5. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Endemic.
(c) Infectious.
(d) Pernicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

2. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

3. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What conversation did Byron have with his friend Tom Moore in 1828?

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

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

5. What stages does cancer have and how does it progress?

6. How did the apperance of tuberculosis become a staple of nineteenth-century manners?

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

8. What example does Sontag provide of sex being prescribed to tuberculars as therapy?

9. Why does Sontag believe that cancer patients were not told about their illness, but patients with cardiac disease were told about their condition?

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

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