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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?
(a) Sanitation practices.
(b) Sterilization practices.
(c) Disinfection practices.
(d) Decontamination practices.

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

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

5. 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) Encroachment.
(c) Infraction.
(d) Trespass.

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

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

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

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

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

11. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?
(a) 95 percent of the population.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Almost everyone.
(d) 50 percent of the population.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

2. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?

3. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

4. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

5. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?

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