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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 Joseph Severn, Keats's companion, write that all the furniture in the room where Keats died was burned?
(a) January 19, 1821.
(b) April 9, 1821.
(c) February 24, 1821.
(d) March 6, 1821.

2. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) August 1917.
(b) November 1917.
(c) September 1917.
(d) October 1917.

3. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Liver cancer.
(c) Stomach cancer.
(d) Breast cancer.

4. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) University of California.

5. In Chapter 5, what disease individualized a person?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Typhus.
(c) TB.
(d) Plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

2. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

3. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?

4. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?

5. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

4. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?

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