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

2. What does Sontag call illness?
(a) A knock on the door.
(b) A walk on the wrong side of the street.
(c) Night-side of life.
(d) Death tiptoeing.

3. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?
(a) Panic.
(b) Horror.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Dread.

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

5. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1876.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

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

3. In She Stoops to Conquer, what was the name of Mrs. Hardcastle's son by a former marriage?

4. When was streptomycin discovered?

5. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who invented the cult of TB?

3. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

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

5. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

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

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

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

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

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

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