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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how did Groddeck describe illness?
(a) Figure.
(b) Logotype.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Emblem.

2. What was considered to be the only treatment for cancer since the patient's body was considered to be under attack?
(a) Counterattack.
(b) Counterstrike.
(c) Counterassault.
(d) Neutralization.

3. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1787.

4. In The Magic Mountain, what disease is the expression of a secret love?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) TB.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Typhus.

5. When did Kafa write about his TB in a letter to Max Brod in Chapter 5?
(a) August 1917.
(b) September 1917.
(c) October 1917.
(d) November 1917.

6. When did Keats die?
(a) December 1820.
(b) February 1821.
(c) January 1821.
(d) November 1820.

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

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

9. When did English surgeon Sir Astley Cooper find grief and anxiety to be among the most frequent causes of breast cancer?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1845.

10. As a scourge, what did syphilis imply in Chapter 5?
(a) Lack os self-control.
(b) Lack of inhibition.
(c) Moral judgment.
(d) Psychological judgement.

11. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?
(a) Lovecraft.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Poe.

12. In Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas's study what feelings did cancer patients have from their parents?
(a) Disconnection.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Separation.
(d) Lack of love.

13. When was the first modern chemotherapy success?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1904.

14. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
(a) Colon.
(b) Liver.
(c) Lung.
(d) Stomach.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?

2. According to Chapter 8, how are cancer cells described?

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

4. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

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

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