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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Culture.
(b) Breeding.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Refinement.

2. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Infectious.
(b) Contagious.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Endemic.

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

4. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) 50 percent of the population.
(b) 95 percent of the population.
(c) Almost everyone.
(d) Everyone.

5. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Neglected.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Snubbed.
(d) Shunned.

6. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Crab.
(b) Croak.
(c) Gripee.
(d) Crustacean.

7. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Uninhibited sex.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Love affair.
(d) Philanthrophy.

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

9. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Naples.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

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

11. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) Rockhaven.
(b) Saranac Lake.
(c) The Magic Mountain.
(d) Silvercrest.

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

13. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?
(a) Main Against Himself.
(b) The Human Mind.
(c) The Vital Balance.
(d) A Psychiatrist's World.

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

15. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Love.
(b) Affection.
(c) Adulation.
(d) Devotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

2. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

3. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

4. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

5. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

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