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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

6. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1874.

7. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Connected.
(b) Set apart.
(c) Involved.
(d) Isolated.

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

9. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Gonorrhea.
(b) Chlamydia.
(c) Herpes.
(d) Syphilis.

10. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1542.
(b) 1513.
(c) 1529.
(d) 1531.

11. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) September 1917.
(b) October 1917.
(c) August 1917.
(d) November 1917.

12. Where did Keats die?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Rome.

13. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Manure.
(c) Water.
(d) Divine wrath.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?

2. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?

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

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

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

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