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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Exposes weakness.
(b) Does not knock before it enters.
(c) Tears down defenses.
(d) Barges in the door.

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

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

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

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

9. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1852.

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

11. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1876.

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

13. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?
(a) Crime.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Larceny.
(d) Theft.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?

3. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?

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

5. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

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