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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?
(a) Consumption.
(b) White plague.
(c) Scofula.
(d) Wasting disease.

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

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

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

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

6. 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 inhibition.
(d) Disease of repression.

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

8. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1840s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1819.

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

10. What is the subject of Sontag's book?
(a) The geography of illness.
(b) Why illness is a metaphor.
(c) How illness as been used as a metaphor.
(d) The topography of illness.

11. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?
(a) Palermo.
(b) Florence.
(c) Venice.
(d) Naples.

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

13. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1917.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

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

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

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

5. How many organs can TB affect?

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