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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 was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?
(a) 16th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 15th century.

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

3. When did Tom Moore visit Byron in Patras?
(a) March 1828.
(b) April 1828.
(c) January 1828.
(d) February 1828.

4. When did Rudolf Virchow found the science of cellular pathology?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1819.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Wings of the Dove, what did Milly Theale's doctor advise as a cure for her TB?

2. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?

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

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 is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

2. Which economic spheres are affected by tuberculosis and by cancer?

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

4. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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