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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 was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?
(a) 1489.
(b) 1495.
(c) 1503.
(d) 1516.
2. When did the Concourt brothers write about TB in their novel Madame Gervaisais?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1876.
3. When did Keats write a letter to Fanny Brawne?
(a) November 23, 1820.
(b) November 1, 1820.
(c) November 30, 1820.
(d) November 19, 1820.
4. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1874.
5. Beginning with the Romantics, what disease was TB conceived to be a variant of?
(a) Love.
(b) Affection.
(c) Adulation.
(d) Devotion.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Novalis write about the ideal of perfect health?
2. By what time had TB already acquired the assocation of being romantic?
3. When did Shelley write to Keats and comment on his appearance of consumption?
4. What was once prescribed to tuberculars as a therapy that is now believed to stave off cancer?
5. When did Camille Saint-Saens write that Chopin was tubercular when it was not fashionable to be healthy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What example does Sontag provide of sex being prescribed to tuberculars as therapy?
2. Which economic spheres are affected by tuberculosis and by cancer?
3. What stages does cancer have and how does it progress?
4. When was it possible to separate the conception of TB and cancer?
5. What does Sontag want to debunk about illness as a metaphor in her book?
6. How did a character in The Magic Mountain explain symptoms of disease?
7. How were metaphors of TB broken up in the twentieth century?
8. Why did Insarov, the hero in Turgenev's On the Eve, get TB and die?
9. Who invented the cult of TB?
10. What passion did people think would given them cancer if not discharged, and what example is provided of that belief?
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