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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 abducted Chryses' daughter in the Iliad?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Nestor.
(d) Diomedes.

2. What word did Bichat use to describe disease?
(a) Uprising.
(b) Insurrection.
(c) Rebellion.
(d) Revolt.

3. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) TB.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Cholera.

4. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
(a) Chlamydia.
(b) Gonorrhea.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Herpes.

5. With what disease was the first modern chemotherapy success?
(a) Liver cancer.
(b) Breast cancer.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Stomach cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kant compare passion to cancer in Anthropologie?

2. What did Reich call the energy he found equivalent to cancer in the biosphere?

3. When did G. von Schmitt publish a book on cancer?

4. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Kafka describe TB?

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

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

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

6. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?

7. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?

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

9. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

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

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