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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
(a) Maleria and TB.
(b) TB and cancer.
(c) Cancer and maleria.
(d) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.

4. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?
(a) Counterassault.
(b) Counterstrike.
(c) Neutralization.
(d) Counterattack.

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

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

7. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?
(a) Idiomycin.
(b) Cyclophosphamide.
(c) 5-fluorouracil.
(d) Doxorubicin.

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

9. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?
(a) Max Brod.
(b) Felice Bauer.
(c) Leos Janacek.
(d) Karl Kraus.

10. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

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

13. When did an an inadvertent experiement with chemical warfare lead to the use of cancer drugs?
(a) World War II.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) Vietnam War.

14. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
(a) Bankruptcy.
(b) Impoverishment.
(c) Penury.
(d) Insolvency.

15. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Loss.
(c) Unfulfillment.
(d) Overcrowding.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

2. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

3. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?

4. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

5. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

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