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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

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

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

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

5. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What passion did people think would given them cancer if not discharged, and what example is provided of that belief?

2. When was it possible to separate the conception of TB and cancer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both TB and cancer were depicted as diseases of passion. Why were TB and cancer both depicted as diseases of passion? How was the passion that led to TB and that led to cancer in opposition? How did the myths about TB and cancer depict both diseases as diseases of passion?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 5, Sontag compares and contrasts cholera and tuberculosis. How does Sontag compare and contrast cholera and TB? What is communicated about individuality and community through contrast and comparison?

Essay Topic 3

TB and cancer are very different diseases. How are TB and cancer very different diseases? How are the diseases generalized? How does that generalization create a mythological construct that is used when writing about the diseases?

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