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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 did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1871.
2. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?
(a) Munich.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Chicago.
(d) London.
3. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
(a) Confessing sin.
(b) Strong mental attitude.
(c) Asserting the will.
(d) Abstaining from sin.
4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) July 1917.
(b) August 1917.
(c) October 1917.
(d) September 1917.
5. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?
(a) Character.
(b) Sin.
(c) Absolution.
(d) Punishment.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?
2. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?
3. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?
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. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Kafka describe TB?
2. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?
3. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?
4. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?
5. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?
6. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?
7. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
8. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
9. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?
10. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?
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