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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) Plague.
(c) TB.
(d) Scarlet fever.
2. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Islam.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Catholicism.
3. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?
(a) Without limitation.
(b) Without inhibition.
(c) Without restriction.
(d) Without restraint.
4. When did Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1841.
5. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
(a) John Keats.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) William Wordsworth.
6. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Confessing sin.
(b) Abstaining from sin.
(c) Asserting the will.
(d) Strong mental attitude.
7. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Separation.
(c) Lack of love.
(d) Disconnection.
8. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?
(a) Combative.
(b) Invasive.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Incursive.
9. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
(a) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.
(b) Cancer and maleria.
(c) Maleria and TB.
(d) TB and cancer.
10. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) April 9, 1821.
(b) February 24, 1821.
(c) January 19, 1821.
(d) March 6, 1821.
11. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.
12. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Munich.
(c) Chicago.
(d) London.
13. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?
(a) Absolution.
(b) Character.
(c) Sin.
(d) Punishment.
14. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
(a) Personality.
(b) Will.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Soul.
15. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Colon.
(b) Lung.
(c) Liver.
(d) Stomach.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?
2. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
3. Where did Keats die?
4. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?
5. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?
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