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

2. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1798.

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

4. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) William Blake.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) John Keats.

5. When was the influenza pandemic?
(a) 1918-1918.
(b) 1921-1922.
(c) 1917-1918.
(d) 1918-1921.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Herbert Snow a surgeon?

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

4. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?

5. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?

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

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

8. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?

9. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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