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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1795.

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

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

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

9. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He yielded to resignation.
(b) He withdrew from life.
(c) He remained unhappily married.
(d) He gave up.

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

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

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

13. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1876.

14. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Rome.
(d) Naples.

15. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Horror.
(b) Dread.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Panic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what work did Karl Menninger observe that the word cancer could kill patients?

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?

3. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?

4. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?

5. What type of mark was it to be sad?

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