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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 Schlegel write his essay On the Study of Greek Poetry?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1786.

2. How early were synonyms used for tuberculosis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1398.
(b) 1411.
(c) 1386.
(d) 1403.

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

4. What diseases have been encumbered by the trappings of metaphor?
(a) Heart disease and diabetes.
(b) Tuberculosis and cancer.
(c) Cirrhosis and diabetes.
(d) Pulmonary disease and Alzheimer's.

5. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?
(a) Inward flame.
(b) Inward burning.
(c) Being enflamed.
(d) Being ablaze.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

2. When was tuberculosis discovered to be a bacterial infection?

3. What Old West legendary gunfighter had TB?

4. In Chapter 3, what type of diseases are TB and cancer understood to be?

5. When Theophile Gautier was young, what was the maximum weight he would have accepted a person as a lyrical poet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who invented the cult of TB?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

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

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