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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?
(a) Tuberculosis and cancer.
(b) Pulmonary disease and Alzheimer's.
(c) Cirrhosis and diabetes.
(d) Heart disease and diabetes.

2. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1917.

3. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1840s.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1850s.
(d) 1873.

4. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Fervor.
(b) Vitality.
(c) Passion.
(d) Ardor.

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

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

7. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1627.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1611.

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

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

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

11. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1741.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1759.
(d) 1737.

12. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 11, 1820.
(b) July 19, 1820.
(c) July 3, 1820.
(d) July 27, 1820.

13. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1790.

14. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1548.
(b) 1528.
(c) 1617.
(d) 1602.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?

2. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

3. When did Alice James die from cancer?

4. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

5. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

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