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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. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?
2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
3. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
4. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
5. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?
2. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?
3. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?
4. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?
5. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
6. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?
7. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
8. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?
9. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?
10. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the Greeks and Christian view disease? Why did they both believe disease could be divine punishment?
Essay Topic 2
Military metaphors were often used for cancer. What were some military metaphors that were used for cancer? Why were military metaphors used for cancer?
Essay Topic 3
Illness has frequently been used as metaphor. How does Sontag use metaphors in the book? Why does she believe that illness is not a metaphor? Why does she think that it was wrong to use illness as a metaphor?
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