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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. Where was an American ship loaded with nitrogen mustard gas blown up and then lead to the discovery of chemotheraphy?
(a) Antwerp.
(b) Naples.
(c) Rotterdam.
(d) Hamburg.
2. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1872.
3. When did Keats die?
(a) November 1820.
(b) January 1821.
(c) December 1820.
(d) February 1821.
4. When is the entry for pestilence dated in the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) 1513.
(b) 1542.
(c) 1529.
(d) 1531.
5. In ancient times, what did people believe most often caused disease?
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Manure.
(c) Water.
(d) Divine wrath.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
2. When did Baudelaire write the essay L'Ecole paienne"?
3. Where was Lawrence LeShan a psychologist and psychotherapist?
4. According to Schopenhauer, what did the presence of disease indicate was sick?
5. Who said there was no one in the world who was less able to conceal his emotion than Kant?
Short Essay Questions
1. What correlation did doctors see between cancer and complaints?
2. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?
3. In The Magic Mountain how did tuberculosis affect Hans Castorp?
4. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?
5. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?
6. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?
7. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?
8. What observations did Galen make regarding women who got breast cancer?
9. How were the conceptions of and treatements for TB patients and mental paitents similar?
10. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?
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