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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Typhus.
(b) TB.
(c) Plague.
(d) Scarlet fever.
2. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?
(a) Loss.
(b) Overcrowding.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Unfulfillment.
3. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Munich.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Chicago.
(d) London.
4. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?
(a) Counterassault.
(b) Neutralization.
(c) Counterattack.
(d) Counterstrike.
5. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Connected.
(b) Set apart.
(c) Involved.
(d) Isolated.
6. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
(a) Cancerqueen.
(b) Cancership.
(c) CancerRocket.
(d) Cancercapsule.
7. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Herpes.
(c) Chlamydia.
(d) Gonorrhea.
8. When did Keats die?
(a) February 1821.
(b) January 1821.
(c) December 1820.
(d) November 1820.
9. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?
(a) Dispirited.
(b) Despondency.depress
(c) Depression.
(d) Moroseness.
10. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1978.
11. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Gestation.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Gravid.
12. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
(a) D. H. Lawrence.
(b) Frieda Lawrence.
(c) John Middleton Murry.
(d) Virginia Woolf.
13. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Nestor.
14. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) September 1917.
(b) October 1917.
(c) August 1917.
(d) July 1917.
15. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Soul.
(c) Personality.
(d) Will.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
2. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
4. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
5. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?
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