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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) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) Untimely Mediations.
(d) The Will to Power.

2. When did Oliver Goldsmith write She Stoops to Conquer?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1769.

3. How many organs can TB affect?
(a) 2.
(b) 25.
(c) 11.
(d) 1.

4. What type of mark was it to be sad?
(a) Refinement.
(b) Culture.
(c) Breeding.
(d) Sophistication.

5. As described in Chapter 1, what unnecessary practices might members of the household of a cancer patient subject the patient to?
(a) Disinfection practices.
(b) Sanitation practices.
(c) Decontamination practices.
(d) Sterilization practices.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Stendhal write Armance?

2. In Chapter 2, from what time did the modern fantasy about cancer begin to take shape?

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

4. In Chapter 1, if a disease was treated as a mystery to be feared, how would it be felt to be?

5. Until what time are the main symptoms of cancer usually invisible?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

2. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

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

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

5. How was TB seen as a disease of passion?

6. At the time the book was written, what did many people believe about cancer?

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

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

9. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

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

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