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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 diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
2. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
3. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?
4. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?
5. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?
2. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?
3. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?
4. How did Kafka describe TB?
5. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?
6. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
7. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?
8. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?
9. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?
10. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Footnotes are notes, explanations, or comments usually shown at the bottom of a page of text. What is the purpose of footnotes? What benefits are there to using footnotes? How and why does Sontag use footnotes in the text?
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