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

2. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?
(a) Denver, Colorado.
(b) Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(c) Fort Worth, Texas.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

3. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Ares.
(b) Athena.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Apollo.

4. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?
(a) Idiomycin.
(b) 5-fluorouracil.
(c) Cyclophosphamide.
(d) Doxorubicin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?

2. When did Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?

3. In Chapter 5, what disease did Hans Castorp have?

4. What illness did Cresseid have in The Testament of Cresseid?

5. What emotion did a Boston doctor advise in 1885 for women who had benign tumors in the breast?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?

2. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?

3. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?

4. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?

5. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?

6. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?

7. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?

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

9. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

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

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