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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. Before what time was it not possible to identify leukemia as a type of cancer?

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

4. When was Bernard de Gordon's Pratiqum published?

5. What did people believe cancer patients lacked that caused them to get the disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Marie Bashkirtsev write about having tuberculosis?

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

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

4. What did Karl Menninger observed about the word cancer?

5. How were metaphors of TB broken up in the twentieth century?

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

7. Who invented the cult of TB?

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

9. What stages does cancer have and how does it progress?

10. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Culture and psychology were used to explain illness. How were culture and psychology used to explain illness? What did psychologizing disease seem to provide? What did it seem to undermine?

Essay Topic 2

TB and cancer are very different diseases. How are TB and cancer very different diseases? How are the diseases generalized? How does that generalization create a mythological construct that is used when writing about the diseases?

Essay Topic 3

Sontag discusses a metaphor of repression. What is the metaphor of repression? How does that metaphor relate to TB and to cancer?

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