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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
(a) John Keats.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) William Wordsworth.

3. When did Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1860.

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

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

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

7. Where did Keats die?
(a) Rome.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

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

9. When did English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1842.

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

11. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
(a) Cancercapsule.
(b) Cancerqueen.
(c) Cancership.
(d) CancerRocket.

12. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?
(a) Dombey and Son.
(b) The Cricket on the Hearth.
(c) The Pickwick Papers.
(d) Barnaby Rudge.

13. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Argos.
(b) Megara.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Baris.

14. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Abstaining from sin.
(b) Strong mental attitude.
(c) Confessing sin.
(d) Asserting the will.

15. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?
(a) Doctor Crawford.
(b) Doctor Williams.
(c) Doctor Thomas.
(d) Doctor Vincent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?

3. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?

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

5. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?

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