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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Invasive.
(c) Combative.
(d) Incursive.

2. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?
(a) 120.
(b) Around 110.
(c) 75.
(d) More than 100.

3. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?
(a) Without limitation.
(b) Without restraint.
(c) Without restriction.
(d) Without inhibition.

4. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) TB.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Plague.

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

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

7. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?
(a) Psychopathic.
(b) Insanity.
(c) Psychosis.
(d) Schizophrenia.

8. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?
(a) Moroseness.
(b) Depression.
(c) Despondency.depress
(d) Dispirited.

9. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Will.
(c) Personality.
(d) Soul.

10. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 1/4 or 1/2.
(b) 2/3 or 3/5.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/8.

11. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?
(a) Antwerp.
(b) Naples.
(c) Rotterdam.
(d) Hamburg.

12. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?
(a) Character.
(b) Absolution.
(c) Sin.
(d) Punishment.

13. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Plague.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Scarlet fever.

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

15. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Plague.
(d) Smallpox.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?

3. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?

4. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?

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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