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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. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Romania.
(d) Bulgaria.

2. What is the main symptom of TB?
(a) Wheezing.
(b) Coughing.
(c) Congestion.
(d) Breathlessness.

3. What does contact with someone afflicted with a disease that appeares to be a mysterious malevolency feel like, as described in Chapter 1?
(a) Encroachment.
(b) Infraction.
(c) Breach.
(d) Trespass.

4. In what work did Nietzsche write about how interesting the sick were?
(a) Beyond Good and Evil.
(b) The Will to Power.
(c) Human, All Too Human.
(d) Untimely Mediations.

5. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1879.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what type of people were thought to be affected by TB?

2. Although TB was celebrated as a disease of passion, what was it also regarded as?

3. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

4. In Chapter 1, what words does Sontag use to describe the type of invasion cancer is?

5. When did Marie Bashkirtsev die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What passion did people think would given them cancer if not discharged, and what example is provided of that belief?

4. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

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

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