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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 Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?
(a) Dombey and Son.
(b) The Pickwick Papers.
(c) Barnaby Rudge.
(d) The Cricket on the Hearth.

2. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Rome.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Venice.

3. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1977.

4. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?
(a) Fromm.
(b) Marcuse.
(c) Reich.
(d) Adler.

5. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
(a) Maleria and TB.
(b) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.
(c) Cancer and maleria.
(d) TB and cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?

2. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?

3. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?

4. When did Keats die?

5. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Joseph Severn write was done to Keats' room a couple weeks after his death?

2. How did Kafka describe TB?

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

4. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

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

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

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

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

9. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?

10. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?

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