Illness as Metaphor Test | Final Test - Hard

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Illness as Metaphor Test | Final Test - Hard

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

2. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?

3. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?

4. When was the influenza pandemic?

5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

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

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

5. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?

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

7. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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