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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Psychopathic.
(d) Psychosis.

2. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Megara.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Argos.
(d) Baris.

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

4. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?
(a) Corsica.
(b) Venice.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Rome.

5. What did Kafka believe that his illness was a sign of?
(a) Insolvency.
(b) Bankruptcy.
(c) Impoverishment.
(d) Penury.

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

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

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

9. Where did Drs. Claus and Marjorie Bahnson practice?
(a) Massachusetts General Hospital.
(b) Cleveland Clinic.
(c) Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.
(d) Mayo Clinic.

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

11. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?
(a) Be carefree.
(b) Be optimistic.
(c) Be content.
(d) Be cheerful.

12. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?
(a) Insurrection.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Revolt.
(d) Uprising.

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

14. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?
(a) TB.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Leprosy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 19th century, what did punishment express?

2. When did Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?

3. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?

4. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?

5. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?

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