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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) July 1917.
(b) September 1917.
(c) August 1917.
(d) October 1917.

2. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?
(a) Marcuse.
(b) Fromm.
(c) Reich.
(d) Adler.

3. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1982.

4. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
(a) Insolvency.
(b) Penury.
(c) Bankruptcy.
(d) Impoverishment.

5. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?
(a) Hawthorne.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Lovecraft.
(d) Poe.

6. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?
(a) 1672.
(b) 1559.
(c) 1519.
(d) 1680.

7. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?
(a) Psychological judgement.
(b) Lack of inhibition.
(c) Moral judgment.
(d) Lack os self-control.

8. From what discipline are the descriptions of cancer drawn?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Sociology.

9. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Argos.
(c) Megara.
(d) Baris.

10. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) November 1917.
(b) August 1917.
(c) October 1917.
(d) September 1917.

11. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?
(a) Gestation.
(b) Gravid.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Pregnancy.

12. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Cholera.
(d) TB.

13. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
(a) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.
(b) TB and cancer.
(c) Maleria and TB.
(d) Cancer and maleria.

14. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?
(a) Susceptible and weak.
(b) Exposed and endangered.
(c) Vulnerable and self-destructive.
(d) Defenseless and open.

15. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Asserting the will.
(b) Confessing sin.
(c) Abstaining from sin.
(d) Strong mental attitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?

2. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?

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

4. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?

5. When did Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?

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