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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
(a) John Middleton Murry.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Frieda Lawrence.
(d) D. H. Lawrence.

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

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

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

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

7. When did Keats die?
(a) January 1821.
(b) December 1820.
(c) November 1820.
(d) February 1821.

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

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

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

11. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be carefree.
(b) Be content.
(c) Be cheerful.
(d) Be optimistic.

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

13. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Typus.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) TB.

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

15. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?
(a) Works and Days and Theogony.
(b) Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
(c) Prometheus and Rhesus.
(d) Iliiad and the Odyssey.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?

2. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?

3. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?

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

5. When was the influenza pandemic?

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