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

2. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1800-1801.
(b) 1790-1791.
(c) 1780-1781.
(d) 1799-1800.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

2. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

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

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

5. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

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

3. Why did Insarov, the hero in Turgenev's On the Eve, get TB and die?

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

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

6. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

7. When and why was it possible to separate the definitions of cancer from TB?

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

9. How did Sontag see people treated who had cancer, and why?

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

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