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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 Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1852.

2. 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?
(a) 98.
(b) 103.
(c) 109.
(d) 87.

3. When did English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1842.

4. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?
(a) Counterassault.
(b) Counterstrike.
(c) Neutralization.
(d) Counterattack.

5. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1977.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what work did Dickens describe TB as a "great constitutional weakness?

2. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?

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

4. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?

5. From what discipline are the descriptions of cancer drawn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?

9. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?

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

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