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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 Robert Louis Stevenson write Ordered South?

2. How many people have to become citizens of the sick, according to Sontag?

3. How does Sontag describe how the process by which TB took a person's life in Chapter 1?

4. Where did Insarov, the hero of On the Eve, die?

5. When did Turgenev write On the Eve?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did "romantic agony" (29) derive from tuberculosis and its metaphors?

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

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

4. How might the name of a disease seem to have a magic power?

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

6. What passion did people think would given them cancer if not discharged, and what example is provided of that belief?

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

8. At the time the book was written, what did many people believe about cancer?

9. How does Sontag compare illness to a kingdom?

10. How was TB romanticized by the mid-eighteenth century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the mid-eighteenth century tuberculosis was romanticized. Why was TB romanticized? How was it perceived to make people interesting?

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

Disease metaphors have been used to describe society and politics. How have disease metaphors been used to describe society and politics? What problems are there with using disease metaphors to describe society and politics?

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