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

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

3. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Involved.
(b) Connected.
(c) Isolated.
(d) Set apart.

4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
(a) August 1917.
(b) October 1917.
(c) September 1917.
(d) July 1917.

5. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1529.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1513.
(d) 1531.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?

2. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?

3. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?

4. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?

5. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

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

5. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

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

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

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

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

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

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