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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. Who did Kafka write and say that his illness was speaking for him because he wanted it to speak for him?
(a) Max Brod.
(b) Felice Bauer.
(c) Karl Kraus.
(d) Leos Janacek.

2. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Diomedes.
(c) Nestor.
(d) Agamemnon.

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

4. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Smallpox.

5. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1871.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?

2. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

3. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?

4. When was the influenza pandemic?

5. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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