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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. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Plague.
(d) Cholera.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?

2. When did Keats die?

3. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?

5. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

2. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?

3. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?

4. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?

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

6. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?

7. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?

8. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?

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

10. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

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