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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) The Will to Power.
(b) Untimely Mediations.
(c) Beyond Good and Evil.
(d) Human, All Too Human.

2. When did Goldsmith write about a diet that would correct consumption?
(a) 1741.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1737.
(d) 1768.

3. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
(a) 1790-1791.
(b) 1800-1801.
(c) 1799-1800.
(d) 1780-1781.

4. What does Sontag compare illness and being well to?
(a) Nations.
(b) Kingdoms.
(c) Dominions.
(d) Principalities.

5. When did TB become a new reason for exile or a life that was mainly traveling?
(a) Early 19th century.
(b) 1880s.
(c) Late 18th century.
(d) 1790s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sontag say people with cancer might be treated by relatives and friends?

2. What feeling does Sontag think in Chapter 1 that a disease arouses?

3. Why did Michel in Gide's The Immoralist contract TB?

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

5. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the metaphor of TB provide for two contradictory applications?

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

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