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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, what disease individualized a person?
2. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
3. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
4. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
5. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?
2. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?
3. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?
4. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?
5. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?
6. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
7. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?
8. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?
9. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to 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
Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not a treatise?
Essay Topic 2
In the mid-eighteenth century tuberculosis was romanticized. Why was TB romanticized? How was it perceived to make people interesting?
Essay Topic 3
TB and cancer are very different diseases. How are TB and cancer very different diseases? How are the diseases generalized? How does that generalization create a mythological construct that is used when writing about the diseases?
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