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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. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
(a) Character.
(b) Self.
(c) Essence.
(d) It.

2. According to Herbert Snow, out of 140 cases of breast cancer, how many gave an account of previous mental trouble, hard work, or other problems?
(a) 103.
(b) 87.
(c) 109.
(d) 98.

3. When did an an inadvertent experiement with chemical warfare lead to the use of cancer drugs?
(a) Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what discipline are the descriptions of cancer drawn?

2. Like what other ailment was TB understood to be a failure of will or overintensity?

3. Who abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?

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

5. At what medical school did Dr. Caroline Bedell Thomas work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does cancer take its controlling metaphors from the language of warfare?

3. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

4. How did the ideas connecting TB and emotions change, and how does Sontag relate that change to cancer?

5. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

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

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

8. How did Kafka describe TB?

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

10. In Death in Venice, how did disease affect Gustav von Achenbach?

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