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

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

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

4. From where did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Rome.
(c) Naples.
(d) Sicily.

5. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1516.
(c) 1503.
(d) 1495.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thomas Paynell discuss cancer as a canker?

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

3. What did Menninger believe should be done to rectify the conception of disease?

4. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

5. What does Sontag say about how cancer enters a person's life in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Sontag believe that cancer patients were not told about their illness, but patients with cardiac disease were told about their condition?

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

5. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

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

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

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

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

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

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