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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 Rene and Jean Dubos write The White Plague?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1941.
2. In the Iliad, what God punished the Achaeans for the abduction of Chryses' daughter?
(a) Athena.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Ares.
3. When was the influenza pandemic?
(a) 1918-1918.
(b) 1917-1918.
(c) 1921-1922.
(d) 1918-1921.
4. When did Kafka write to Milena that his TB was caused by his mental disease?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1920.
5. What illness did Gustav von Aschenbach have in Chapter 5?
(a) Typhus.
(b) TB.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Smallpox.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 5, what was another notorious disease of the 19th century that was contracted by having sex with a carrier?
2. When was the book You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer written?
3. What type of cancer did the character Watanabe have in Kurosawa's film Ikiru?
4. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?
5. What city was struck by plague in Oedipus?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was syphilis and its origin not mysterious?
2. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?
3. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?
4. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?
5. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?
6. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?
7. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
8. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?
9. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?
10. How did Kafka describe TB?
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