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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Athena.
(d) Ares.

2. When did an an inadvertent experiement with chemical warfare lead to the use of cancer drugs?
(a) World War II.
(b) 1950s.
(c) Vietnam War.
(d) 1960s.

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

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

5. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Typhus.
(b) TB.
(c) Plague.
(d) Scarlet fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

2. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?

3. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

4. When did Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?

2. How did Kafka describe TB?

3. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

4. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?

5. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?

6. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?

7. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?

8. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

9. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?

10. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?

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