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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 was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.

2. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Plague.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Yellow fever.

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

4. 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) Maleria and TB.
(d) Bubonic plague, typhus, and cholera.

5. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
(a) Cancership.
(b) CancerRocket.
(c) Cancercapsule.
(d) Cancerqueen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?

2. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?

3. What problems did Victorian cancer patients describe in their lives?

4. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?

5. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?

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

5. How did Kafka describe TB?

6. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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

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

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