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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
(a) Essence.
(b) It.
(c) Character.
(d) Self.

2. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Lung.
(b) Colon.
(c) Liver.
(d) Stomach.

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

4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) October 1917.
(b) August 1917.
(c) September 1917.
(d) July 1917.

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

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

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

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

9. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?
(a) Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
(b) Mayo Clinic.
(c) Cleveland Clinic.
(d) Massachusetts General Hospital.

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

11. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?
(a) Lack of inhibition.
(b) Lack os self-control.
(c) Psychological judgement.
(d) Moral judgment.

12. 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) January 19, 1821.
(c) April 9, 1821.
(d) March 6, 1821.

13. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1841.

14. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Plague.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Typhus.
(d) TB.

15. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Typus.
(b) TB.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Smallpox.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?

3. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?

4. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?

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

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