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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?

3. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?

4. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

5. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Kafka describe TB?

2. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?

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

4. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

5. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There was a divergence in the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer. How did the metaphorical descriptions of TB and cancer diverge? How and why did technology create the divergence?

Essay Topic 2

How did the Greeks and Christian view disease? Why did they both believe disease could be divine punishment?

Essay Topic 3

The myth of tuberculosis was dispelled in the mid-twentieth century. When were cures for tuberculosis discovered? How was the reality and description of tuberculosis transformed and changed when a cure was found?

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