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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. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

3. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

4. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?

5. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?

2. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?

3. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

4. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?

5. What did Joseph Severn write was done to Keats' room a couple weeks after his death?

6. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?

7. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?

8. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?

9. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?

10. How did Kafka describe TB?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Metaphors used to describe cancer and tuberculosis changed over time. How did the metaphors used to describe cancer and tuberculosis change over time? What does etymology reveal about those changes?

Essay Topic 2

Susan Sontag is the author of Illness as Metaphor. Why did Sontag write Illness as Metaphor?

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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