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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. When was the influenza pandemic?
(a) 1921-1922.
(b) 1917-1918.
(c) 1918-1918.
(d) 1918-1921.
2. When did Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) February 24, 1821.
(b) March 6, 1821.
(c) April 9, 1821.
(d) January 19, 1821.
3. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?
(a) Orgone.
(b) Helium.
(c) Argon.
(d) Ozone.
4. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 1/8.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/4 or 1/2.
(d) 2/3 or 3/5.
5. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?
(a) Doxorubicin.
(b) 5-fluorouracil.
(c) Cyclophosphamide.
(d) Idiomycin.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
2. Where did Keats die?
3. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
4. In Chapter 6, with the advent of what religion, was there a more moralized notion of disease?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?
2. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?
3. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
4. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?
5. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
6. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?
7. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?
8. What did Joseph Severn write was done to Keats' room a couple weeks after his death?
9. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?
10. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?
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