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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. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?

2. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?

3. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?

4. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?

5. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?

2. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

3. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?

4. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?

5. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?

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

7. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

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

9. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?

10. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Chapter 5, Sontag compares and contrasts cholera and tuberculosis. How does Sontag compare and contrast cholera and TB? What is communicated about individuality and community through contrast and comparison?

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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