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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1411.
(b) 1386.
(c) 1403.
(d) 1398.

4. 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.

5. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Uninhibited sex.
(b) Love affair.
(c) Philanthrophy.
(d) Marriage.

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

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

8. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1794.

9. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Trespass.
(b) Breach.
(c) Encroachment.
(d) Infraction.

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

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

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

13. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?
(a) Early 18th century.
(b) Early 19th century.
(c) Late 18th century.
(d) Mid-19th century.

14. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 2.
(b) 11.
(c) 25.
(d) 1.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

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

3. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

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

5. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?

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