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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 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
2. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
3. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?
4. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
5. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?
2. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?
3. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?
4. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?
5. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?
6. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
7. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
8. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?
9. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?
10. How did Kafka describe TB?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
The myth of tuberculosis was dispelled in the mid-twentieth century. When were cures for tuberculosis discovered? How was the reality and description of tuberculosis transformed and changed when a cure was found?
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