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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) 1919.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1933.

2. When did Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1860.

3. When did Gideon Harvey write Morbidus Anglicus?
(a) 1680.
(b) 1559.
(c) 1519.
(d) 1672.

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

5. Where did Keats die?
(a) Rome.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote, "He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence" (45)?

2. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?

3. In Chapter 5, where was Gustav von Aschenbach?

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

5. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

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