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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?
(a) Vicious and unrelenting.
(b) Ruthless and secret.
(c) Savage and ferocious.
(d) Fierce and unyielding.

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

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

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

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

9. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Romania.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Bulgaria.

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

11. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Gusto.
(b) Ardor.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Fervour.

12. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?
(a) 1836.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1852.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

3. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

4. How many organs can TB affect?

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

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