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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. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

2. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?

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

4. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

5. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

5. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

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

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

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

9. How might the name of a disease seem to have a magic power?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the idea that man created his disease lead to the concept that the sick person caused his illness? What dangers were there in this concept?

Essay Topic 2

The myth of tuberculosis was dispelled in the mid-twentieth century. When were cures for tuberculosis discovered? How was the reality and description of tuberculosis transformed and changed when a cure was found?

Essay Topic 3

There was a divergence in the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer. How did the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer diverge? How and why did technology create the divergence?

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