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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 word did Bichat use to describe disease?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Insurrection.
(c) Uprising.
(d) Revolt.
2. What disease in Chapter 5 reduces a person to a "sick environment" (37)?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Plague.
(d) Smallpox.
3. When did English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1837.
4. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1841.
5. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) John Keats.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Les Liaisons dangereuses, what illness did Madame de Merteuil have?
2. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
3. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?
4. When was Kafka diagnosed with TB?
5. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?
Short Essay Questions
1. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?
2. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?
3. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?
4. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?
5. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?
6. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?
7. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?
8. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?
9. How did Kafka describe TB?
10. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?
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