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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 Wilhelm Rech argue that the irrational fear of syphilis was a source of the National Socialism's political views and anti-Semitism?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1939.

2. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/8.
(c) 2/3 or 3/5.
(d) 1/4 or 1/2.

3. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?
(a) John Middleton Murry.
(b) Frieda Lawrence.
(c) D. H. Lawrence.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

4. When was the influenza pandemic?
(a) 1921-1922.
(b) 1917-1918.
(c) 1918-1918.
(d) 1918-1921.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

2. Where did Keats die?

3. Who wrote that "a fitful strain of melancholy will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful" (50)?

4. In what Greek writings did disease occur as supernatural punishment, demonic possession, or natural causes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?

5. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?

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

7. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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

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

10. How did Kafka describe TB?

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