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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) January 1828.
(b) February 1828.
(c) March 1828.
(d) April 1828.

2. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?
(a) 1617.
(b) 1602.
(c) 1528.
(d) 1548.

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

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

5. What was the thwarted passion that killed Insarov in On the Eve?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Utopianism.
(d) Fanaticism.

6. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?
(a) Fervor.
(b) Vitality.
(c) Passion.
(d) Ardor.

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

8. When did Stendhal write Armance?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1899.

9. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Inward flame.
(b) Being ablaze.
(c) Being enflamed.
(d) Inward burning.

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

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

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

13. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1872.

14. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
(a) Being erotic.
(b) Liberated sexual life.
(c) Libidinous behavior.
(d) Indulging in the carnal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?

2. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

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

4. When did Alice James die from cancer?

5. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?

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