View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Wilhelm Reich believe that Freud got cancer?
(a) He remained unhappily married.
(b) He gave up.
(c) He withdrew from life.
(d) He yielded to resignation.

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

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

4. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 30, 1820.
(b) November 23, 1820.
(c) November 1, 1820.
(d) November 19, 1820.

5. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?
(a) Snubbed.
(b) Rejected.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Shunned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?

2. When was streptomycin discovered?

3. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

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

5. When did the Swiss writer Henri Amiel write about sadness and tuberculosis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 807 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample