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

2. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) London.
(d) Munich.

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

4. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Antwerp.
(c) Naples.
(d) Rotterdam.

5. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
(a) Maleria and TB.
(b) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.
(c) TB and cancer.
(d) Cancer and maleria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?

2. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?

3. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?

4. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?

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

3. What did Joseph Severn write was done to Keats' room a couple weeks after his death?

4. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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

7. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?

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

9. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

10. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?

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