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

2. What is the tubercular consumed by, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Fervour.
(b) Gusto.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Ardor.

3. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?
(a) Bulgaria.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Romania.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

4. When did Alice James die from cancer?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1888.

5. What did the Latin word "cancer" (10), mean?
(a) Crab.
(b) Crustacean.
(c) Croak.
(d) Gripee.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?

2. According to the Oxford English dictionary, what synonym was used for pulmonary tuberculosis for centuries?

3. How many organs can TB affect?

4. At what sanatorium in Chapter 2, did patients carry their X-rays with them?

5. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

2. Who invented the cult of TB?

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

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

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

6. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

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

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

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

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

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