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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?
(a) The Magic Mountain.
(b) Silvercrest.
(c) Saranac Lake.
(d) Rockhaven.

2. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(b) A knock on the door.
(c) Night-side of life.
(d) Death tiptoeing.

3. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
(a) July 11, 1820.
(b) July 27, 1820.
(c) July 3, 1820.
(d) July 19, 1820.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?

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

3. What is the subject of Sontag's book?

4. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

5. How did the Goncourts describe the smell when they visited Murger, who was dying of TB?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the apperance of tuberculosis become a staple of nineteenth-century manners?

2. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

3. What does Sontag want to debunk about illness as a metaphor in her book?

4. What stages does cancer have and how does it progress?

5. What example does Sontag provide of sex being prescribed to tuberculars as therapy?

6. How did a character in The Magic Mountain explain symptoms of disease?

7. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

8. How did the metaphor of TB provide for two contradictory applications?

9. When was it possible to separate the conception of TB and cancer?

10. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

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