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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) White plague.
(b) Scofula.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Wasting disease.

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

3. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?
(a) 4th stage.
(b) Last stage.
(c) Middle stage.
(d) 3rd stage.

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

5. 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) Infraction.
(c) Breach.
(d) Encroachment.

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

7. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?
(a) Hedonic and intermperate.
(b) Reckless and sensual.
(c) Depraved and lascivious.
(d) Dissolute.

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

9. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Breeding.
(b) Culture.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Refinement.

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

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

12. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Shunned.
(b) Neglected.
(c) Rejected.
(d) Snubbed.

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

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

15. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Ardor.
(b) Gusto.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Fervour.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the 19th century, what place was tought to be good for tuberculars?

4. When did Stendhal write Armance?

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

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