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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 Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1904.

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

3. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?
(a) Ozone.
(b) Helium.
(c) Orgone.
(d) Argon.

4. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?
(a) Coleridge.
(b) Hume.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Rousseau.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Katherine Mansfield write in her Journal that she needed to heal herself before she could be well?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

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

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

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

5. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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

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

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

10. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?

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