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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Herbert Snow, out of 140 cases of breast cancer, how many gave an account of previous mental trouble, hard work, or other problems?
(a) 109.
(b) 103.
(c) 87.
(d) 98.

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
(a) Islam.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christianity.

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

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

10. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?
(a) Counterattack.
(b) Neutralization.
(c) Counterstrike.
(d) Counterassault.

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

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

13. 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) Max Brod.
(c) Leos Janacek.
(d) Karl Kraus.

14. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?
(a) Without restraint.
(b) Without inhibition.
(c) Without limitation.
(d) Without restriction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?

2. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?

3. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?

4. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?

5. When was the first modern chemotherapy success?

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