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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 illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
2. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?
3. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
4. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?
5. When did Keats die?
Short Essay Questions
1. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
2. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?
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. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?
6. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?
7. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?
8. What did Joseph Severn write was done to Keats' room a couple weeks after his death?
9. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?
10. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not a treatise?
Essay Topic 2
Susan Sontag is the author of Illness as Metaphor. Why did Sontag write Illness as Metaphor?
Essay Topic 3
Both TB and cancer were depicted as diseases of passion. Why were TB and cancer both depicted as diseases of passion? How was the passion that led to TB and that led to cancer in opposition? How did the myths about TB and cancer depict both diseases as diseases of passion?
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