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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Rome.
(c) Venice.
(d) Corsica.

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

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

6. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Lack of love.
(b) Disconnection.
(c) Separation.
(d) Isolation.

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

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

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

10. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1798.

11. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Hyperactivity.
(b) Hysterics.
(c) Mania.
(d) Frenzy.

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

13. 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.

14. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Athena.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Ares.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

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

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

4. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?

5. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?

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