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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. From what discipline are the descriptions of cancer drawn?
2. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
3. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
4. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?
5. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
Short Essay Questions
1. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?
2. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?
3. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?
4. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?
5. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?
6. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?
7. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?
8. How did Kafka describe TB?
9. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?
10. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Disease metaphors have been used to describe society and politics. How have disease metaphors been used to describe society and politics? What problems are there with using disease metaphors to describe society and politics?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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