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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?
(a) TB.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Typus.
2. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) TB.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Smallpox.
3. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?
(a) 1680.
(b) 1559.
(c) 1672.
(d) 1519.
4. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?
(a) Works and Days and Theogony.
(b) Prometheus and Rhesus.
(c) Iliiad and the Odyssey.
(d) Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
5. In Death in Venice, what was the penalty for a secret love?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Plague.
6. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?
(a) 120.
(b) Around 110.
(c) 75.
(d) More than 100.
7. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Naples.
(c) Antwerp.
(d) Rotterdam.
8. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard Medical School.
(c) Johns Hopkins University school of Medicine.
(d) University of California.
9. In Chapter 5, if a person had TB, how were they related to the community?
(a) Set apart.
(b) Isolated.
(c) Connected.
(d) Involved.
10. Where did Keats die?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Warsaw.
11. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Baris.
(c) Megara.
(d) Argos.
12. 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.
13. In Auden's poem, who was the doctor Miss Gee consulted?
(a) Doctor Williams.
(b) Doctor Vincent.
(c) Doctor Crawford.
(d) Doctor Thomas.
14. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.
15. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?
(a) Denver, Colorado.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Fort Worth, Texas.
(d) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Short Answer Questions
1. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?
2. What unromantic term has supplanted the notion of melancholy?
3. What was required to recover from disease, according to Schopenhauer?
4. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?
5. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
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