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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Fort Worth, Texas.
(c) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(d) Denver, Colorado.

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

5. 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) 1919.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1939.

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

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

8. When did Keats die?
(a) January 1821.
(b) November 1820.
(c) December 1820.
(d) February 1821.

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

10. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?
(a) Helium.
(b) Argon.
(c) Orgone.
(d) Ozone.

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

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

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

14. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) September 1917.
(b) October 1917.
(c) August 1917.
(d) July 1917.

15. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be optimistic.
(b) Be cheerful.
(c) Be carefree.
(d) Be content.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?

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

3. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?

4. When did an an inadvertent experiement with chemical warfare lead to the use of cancer drugs?

5. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?

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