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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 Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1939.

2. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) TB.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Typus.

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

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

5. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) TB.
(d) Scarlet fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did more than anyone to spread the psychological theory of cancer?

3. What word is used for the way that cancer cells multiply?

4. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?

5. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?

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

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

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

6. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

7. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?

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

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

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

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