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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1872.

2. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?
(a) 1700s.
(b) 1800s.
(c) Last century.
(d) Last 200 years.

3. When was streptomycin discovered?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1939.

4. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Kingdoms.
(b) Dominions.
(c) Principalities.
(d) Nations.

5. When did English physician Richard Morton set forth a definition for tuberculosis in his Phthisiologia?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1671.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1679.

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

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

8. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) Why illness is a metaphor.
(b) How illness as been used as a metaphor.
(c) The topography of illness.
(d) The geography of illness.

9. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Dissolute.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Depraved and lascivious.
(d) Hedonic and intermperate.

10. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Utopianism.
(c) Fanaticism.
(d) Romanticism.

11. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of repression.
(b) Disease of restraint.
(c) Disease of inhibition.
(d) Disease of suprression.

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

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

14. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Jesse James.
(b) Pancho Villa.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Doc Holliday.

15. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?
(a) Passion.
(b) Vigor.
(c) Zest.
(d) Ardor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

2. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

3. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?

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

5. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

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