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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?
(a) South Pacific.
(b) Italy.
(c) Mediterranean.
(d) Desert.

4. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Coughing.
(b) Breathlessness.
(c) Congestion.
(d) Wheezing.

5. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?
(a) He repressed his sexual nature.
(b) He embraced love.
(c) He embraced his sexual nature.
(d) He withdrew from love.

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

7. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He remained unhappily married.
(b) He withdrew from life.
(c) He yielded to resignation.
(d) He gave up.

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

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

10. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Venice.
(b) Florence.
(c) Naples.
(d) Palermo.

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

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

13. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Human, All Too Human.
(b) The Will to Power.
(c) Beyond Good and Evil.
(d) Untimely Mediations.

14. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?
(a) Odor of manure.
(b) Odor of carrion.
(c) Odor of rotting flesh.
(d) Odor of the graveyard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

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

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

4. What does Sontag call illness?

5. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?

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