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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. When did Alice James die from cancer?

2. In Chapter 1, what was thought about cancer and its nature?

3. What was fever a sign of in TB, as described in Chapter 3?

4. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

5. When did George Etherege write the play The Man of Mode?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the origin of the word tuberculosis?

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

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

6. What was the earliest literal definition of cancer?

7. How was TB seen as a disease of passion?

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

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

10. How did the metaphor of TB provide for two contradictory applications?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not a treatise?

Essay Topic 3

Some metaphors for TB and cancer were taken from economics. What metaphors for TB and cancer were taken from economics? Is economics a more apt metaphor for TB or for cancer?

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