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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Involved.
(b) Isolated.
(c) Connected.
(d) Set apart.

7. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Agamemnon.

8. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1869.

9. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?
(a) 1519.
(b) 1559.
(c) 1672.
(d) 1680.

10. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) February 24, 1821.
(b) April 9, 1821.
(c) January 19, 1821.
(d) March 6, 1821.

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

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

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

14. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Smallpox.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?

2. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

3. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?

4. According to Herbert Snow, out of 140 cases of breast cancer, how many gave an account of previous mental trouble, hard work, or other problems?

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

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