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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. What was thought to cause cancer in the 19th century?
(a) Hyperactivity.
(b) Frenzy.
(c) Hysterics.
(d) Mania.

2. Where did Keats die?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

3. 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) February 24, 1821.
(c) April 9, 1821.
(d) March 6, 1821.

4. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?
(a) Doctor Williams.
(b) Doctor Vincent.
(c) Doctor Thomas.
(d) Doctor Crawford.

5. What diseases tended to strike each person as a member of an afflicted community in Chapter 5?
(a) Cancer and maleria.
(b) TB and cancer.
(c) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.
(d) Maleria and TB.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did an an inadvertent experiement with chemical warfare lead to the use of cancer drugs?

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

3. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?

4. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Kafka describe TB?

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

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

5. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

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

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

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

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

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

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