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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. When did Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) June 1924.
(b) May 1924.
(c) March 1924.
(d) April 1924.

6. As cancer is imagined to be caused by repression, how was TB explained?
(a) Ravages of resentment.
(b) Ravages of bitterness.
(c) Ravages of vexation.
(d) Ravages of frustration.

7. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 14th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 15th century.

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

9. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?
(a) 1780s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) Mid-18th century.
(d) Mid-19th century.

10. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Being enflamed.
(b) Being ablaze.
(c) Inward flame.
(d) Inward burning.

11. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) Death tiptoeing.
(b) Night-side of life.
(c) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(d) A knock on the door.

12. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 99 pounds.
(b) 115 pounds.
(c) 110 pounds.
(d) 105 pounds.

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

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

15. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?
(a) Disease of suprression.
(b) Disease of repression.
(c) Disease of inhibition.
(d) Disease of restraint.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

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

3. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?

4. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?

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

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