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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1769.

2. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1889.

3. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 4th stage.
(b) Last stage.
(c) 3rd stage.
(d) Middle stage.

4. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 110 pounds.
(b) 115 pounds.
(c) 105 pounds.
(d) 99 pounds.

5. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Fierce and unyielding.
(b) Savage and ferocious.
(c) Ruthless and secret.
(d) Vicious and unrelenting.

6. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) De-stigmatize it.
(b) De-mythicize it.
(c) Re-imagine it.
(d) Change the vision.

7. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Trespass.
(c) Breach.
(d) Infraction.

8. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) June 1924.
(b) April 1924.
(c) May 1924.
(d) March 1924.

9. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1899.

10. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 11.
(b) 1.
(c) 25.
(d) 2.

11. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) January 1828.
(b) February 1828.
(c) April 1828.
(d) March 1828.

12. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Doctor.

13. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Congestion.
(b) Coughing.
(c) Wheezing.
(d) Breathlessness.

14. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 1, 1820.
(b) November 30, 1820.
(c) November 23, 1820.
(d) November 19, 1820.

15. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?
(a) Odor of manure.
(b) Odor of the graveyard.
(c) Odor of carrion.
(d) Odor of rotting flesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?

2. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

3. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?

4. When was streptomycin discovered?

5. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

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