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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1860.

4. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Mid-19th century.
(b) Late 18th century.
(c) Early 18th century.
(d) Early 19th century.

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

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

7. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?
(a) Early 19th century.
(b) 1790s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) Late 18th century.

8. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1913.

9. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?
(a) Unmanageable and deadly.
(b) Hopeless and fatal.
(c) Stubborn and incurable.
(d) Intractable and capricious.

10. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1780-1781.
(b) 1790-1791.
(c) 1799-1800.
(d) 1800-1801.

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

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

13. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?
(a) 26.
(b) 24.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

14. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1885.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

2. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

3. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?

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

5. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

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