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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. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1627.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1611.

2. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?
(a) Jesse James.
(b) Pancho Villa.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Doc Holliday.

3. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1847.

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. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Love.
(b) Affection.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Adulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

2. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?

3. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?

4. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was TB seen as a disease of passion?

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

4. At the time the book was written, what did many people believe about cancer?

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

6. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

7. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

8. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

9. What did Karl Menninger observed about the word cancer?

10. What conversation did Byron have with his friend Tom Moore in 1828?

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