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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. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Psychosis.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Psychopathic.

2. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be cheerful.
(b) Be content.
(c) Be carefree.
(d) Be optimistic.

3. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Connected.
(b) Set apart.
(c) Isolated.
(d) Involved.

4. When did Keats die?
(a) January 1821.
(b) November 1820.
(c) December 1820.
(d) February 1821.

5. When did English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1845.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?

2. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?

3. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

4. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?

5. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?

2. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?

3. How did Kafka describe TB?

4. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

5. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?

6. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?

7. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?

8. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?

9. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?

10. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?

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