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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?
(a) Logotype.
(b) Emblem.
(c) Figure.
(d) Symbol.

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

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

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

9. When was the first modern chemotherapy success?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1910.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?

4. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?

5. Where did Keats die?

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