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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, according to what ancient physician did tumors resemble crabs?

2. When was the term "La tubercule" (10) introlduced by Ambroise Pare?

3. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

4. In On The Eve, where is Insarov, the hero of the novel, from?

5. When did Alice James die from cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sontag reveal about metaphor and tuberculosis (TB) and cancer?

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

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

4. What example does Sontag provide of sex being prescribed to tuberculars as therapy?

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

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

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

8. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

9. When was it possible to separate the conception of TB and cancer?

10. What does Sontag want to debunk about illness as a metaphor in her book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Footnotes are notes, explanations, or comments usually shown at the bottom of a page of text. What is the purpose of footnotes? What benefits are there to using footnotes? How and why does Sontag use footnotes in the text?

Essay Topic 2

Military metaphors were often used for cancer. What were some military metaphors that were used for cancer? Why were military metaphors used for cancer?

Essay Topic 3

There was a divergence in the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer. How did the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer diverge? How and why did technology create the divergence?

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