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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, how does Sontag describe doctors' efforts to cure TB for a long time?
(a) Inefficacious.
(b) Ineffectual.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Ineffective.

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

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

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1611.
(d) 1627.

5. How old was Marie Bashkirtsev when she died?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

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

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?
(a) Antipater.
(b) Galen.
(c) Zopyrus.
(d) Damocrates.

11. What was Oliver Goldsmith trained as?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Doctor.

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

13. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?
(a) Change the vision.
(b) Re-imagine it.
(c) De-mythicize it.
(d) De-stigmatize it.

14. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1869.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

2. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

3. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

4. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

5. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

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