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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?
(a) 1672.
(b) 1519.
(c) 1680.
(d) 1559.

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

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

6. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Plague.
(d) Yellow fever.

7. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1968.

8. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1798.

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

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

11. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
(a) D. H. Lawrence.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Frieda Lawrence.
(d) John Middleton Murry.

12. When was the influenza pandemic?
(a) 1918-1918.
(b) 1917-1918.
(c) 1921-1922.
(d) 1918-1921.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first modern chemotherapy success?

2. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?

3. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?

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

5. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?

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