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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Buddhism.

2. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Hume.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Coleridge.

3. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Ares.
(c) Athena.
(d) Apollo.

4. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
(a) It.
(b) Character.
(c) Self.
(d) Essence.

5. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
(a) TB.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Scarlet fever.

6. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Corsica.
(c) Venice.
(d) Rome.

7. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1941.

8. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.
(c) University of California.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

9. Where did Keats die?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

10. When was the influenza pandemic?
(a) 1921-1922.
(b) 1918-1918.
(c) 1917-1918.
(d) 1918-1921.

11. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?
(a) Liver cancer.
(b) Stomach cancer.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Breast cancer.

12. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Munich.
(b) Chicago.
(c) London.
(d) Washington, D.C.

13. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1792.

14. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Fort Worth, Texas.
(c) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(d) Denver, Colorado.

15. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Separation.
(b) Lack of love.
(c) Isolation.
(d) Disconnection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kant compare cancer to that had been an ancient metaphorice connection?

2. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?

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

4. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?

5. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?

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