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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. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?

2. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?

3. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?

4. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?

5. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?

Short Essay Questions

1. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?

2. What did Joseph Severn write was done to Keats' room a couple weeks after his death?

3. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?

4. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?

5. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?

6. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?

7. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?

8. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?

9. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?

10. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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