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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 Kafka write to a friend from a sanitorium two months before he died?
(a) June 1924.
(b) March 1924.
(c) April 1924.
(d) May 1924.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of mark was it to be sad?

2. At the time the book was written, when was TB thought to be incurable?

3. When did Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?

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

5. How many organs can TB affect?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the history of the use of a synonym for TB?

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

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

5. How might the name of a disease seem to have a magic power?

6. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

7. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

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

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

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

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