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

2. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1876.

3. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?
(a) 105 pounds.
(b) 115 pounds.
(c) 110 pounds.
(d) 99 pounds.

4. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?
(a) Love affair.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Uninhibited sex.
(d) Philanthrophy.

5. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?
(a) Contagious.
(b) Infectious.
(c) Endemic.
(d) Pernicious.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?

4. When did Thoreau write about death and disease often being beautiful?

5. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did "romantic agony" (29) derive from tuberculosis and its metaphors?

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

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

4. How was TB romanticized by the mid-eighteenth century?

5. What does Sontag reveal about metaphor and tuberculosis (TB) and cancer?

6. How were metaphors of TB broken up in the twentieth century?

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

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

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

10. Why does Sontag believe that cancer patients were not told about their illness, but patients with cardiac disease were told about their condition?

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