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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) Hyperactivity.
(b) Hysterics.
(c) Frenzy.
(d) Mania.

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

3. 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) Naples.
(d) Antwerp.

4. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?
(a) Reich.
(b) Marcuse.
(c) Adler.
(d) Fromm.

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

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

7. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 1/4 or 1/2.
(b) 1/8.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 2/3 or 3/5.

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

9. When did Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1928.

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

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

12. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1904.

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

14. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Will.
(c) Soul.
(d) Personality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?

2. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

3. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?

4. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?

5. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?

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