HIST 103

Saul was accepted as king because

God had selected him.

Prophecy in the ancient Jewish world involved

speaking the word of God

Which of the following is NOT true about Saul?

He killed the leader of the Am'alekites.

Which of these is NOT a symptom of Bipolar I Disorder according to the DSM?

facial tics and spasms

Ancient Hebrew texts assumed that

madness was an affliction of the soul

I Samuel indicates that

people were not sure whether Saul was mad or a prophet

Recent scientific research suggests that 

not only humans but also chimps and birds suffer from mental illnesses

David calmed Saul’s moods by

playing music for him

I Samuel contends that Saul went mad because

an evil spirit from God tormented him

I Samuel was written

probably at least one hundred years after Saul's reign

According to the text, God was displeased with Saul because 

Saul did not kill the Am'alek people

Saul's servants

told Saul they noticed something strange about his behavior

Who eventually killed Agag (the leader of the Am’alekites)?

Samuel

In The Bacchae, Pentheus is

Agave’s son

In The Bacchae, upon returning to her home, Agave

comes to her senses

In the Book of Mark, the madman from Gerasenes

shows remarkable strength

According to the Book of Mark, which three of the following powers did Jesus have?

to raise the dead, to heal by touch, to drive out demons

According to Greek literature, the character of Orestes was made mad by the Furies because

he killed his mother

The Bacchae was

written for the theater

The Greek concept of psyche referred to a person’s 

spirit or soul

The ancient Greeks spoke about madness   

in public

In The Bacchae, when Cadmus sees what Agave has done, he

feels sorry for Agave

Galen recommended that individuals concerned about their spiritual state of health

seek advice from someone who shows self-restraint

Which of the following was NOT a form of sacred madness according to Plato

music

According to the messenger in The Bacchae, the best to live your life is by

showing self-control

Which of the following is an ability that Jesus did NOT demonstrate, according to the Book of Mark

destroying temples honoring Asclepius

Which one of the following was NOT a symptom of the frenzy inspired by Bacchus

paralysis of the limbs

The Hippocratic physicians thought hysteria to be

a potentially life-threatening disease

According to Soranus, the Greeks believed mania produced

mental anguish

Herbs and plants were used to treat

both hysteria and mania

According to Hippocratic medicine, hysteria mainly affected

virgins and widows

Which of the following is NOT true about physicians in the city of ancient Rome

they tended to have a military commission

According to Soranus, mania occurred primarily in

young and middle-aged men

Medicine in the ancient world was considered to be

a craft

Ancient medicine placed great emphasis on

prognosis

Which of the following was NOT used by Hippocratic physicians to treat hysteria

tooth removal

Which of the following was NOT a treatment advised by Soranus for mania

brisk walks in the countryside

Hippocratic medicine believed that all illnesses

had histories

Which of the following was NOT considered to be a humor according to Hippocratic medicine

saliva

According to Soranus, mania

was a chronic disorder that could appear, disappear, and reappear

Most mad individuals in the Middle Ages

lived at home with relatives

Medieval Europe was dominated by

monotheistic religions

Avicenna believed female elders in the community could help treat lovesickness by

making fun of the object of the lovesick person’s affection

Which of the following was NOT a symptom associated with acedia in the Middle Ages

compulsive pacing

Avicenna considered sexual relations to be

a remedy for lovesickness

Strasbourg officials concluded that the dancing disease

was caused by overheated blood

According to Rufus of Ephesus, which of the following was NOT a symptom of melancholia

loss of hearing

St. Vitus was

a Christian martyr

Avicenna claimed he could find out the identity of a lovesick person’s loved one by

taking their pulse, while listing names

According to medieval sources, acedia

could interfere with sleep

Which of the following was NOT a potentially lethal (i.e., causing death) disease, according to medieval sources

acedia

When treating lovesickness, Avicenna considered it important to

be sure the body of the patient was moisturized

During the Middle Ages, contracts entered into by individuals deemed to be mad

were valid if the person was not ill at the time of signing the contract

Cullen believed that

something like magnetism moved through the nerves

Condorcet is a good example of an Enlightenment figure because

he believed science could conquer all diseases in the future

By 1800, humoral theory

was still relied on by most physicians

Which of the following was NOT a value prized by Enlightenment thinkers

holism

Which of the following best describes Bedlam and Salpêtrière in the early modern period:

they functioned partly as poorhouses, partly as jails

Boerhaave prescribed throwing maniacal patients into the sea because he believed that

the shock would recalibrate the humors in the body

Bedlam

was a hospital that invited sightseers

John Brown argued that excitement

was produced when the body was stimulated

Cullen argued that a person’s sensitivity to stimuli

could be affected by their habits

According to Boerhaave, melancholy was caused by

black bile in the blood

Discoveries in pathological anatomy in the 17^th and 18^th centuries

had little to no impact on bedside medicine

The Salpêtrière

was a guarded facility

Which of the following was NOT something early modern families did in caring for their ill relatives

sing hymns to the moon

Which of the following was NOT associated with 18^th century interest in electricity

musical amplification

Cullen believed that the nerves operated as a system of

communication

Patients writing for The Opal magazine

had both positive and negative things to say about staff

Which of the following was NOT something the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum provided for patients

legal counseling

The Superintendent of the Patna Lunatic Asylum expressed worries about

police commitments to the asylum

Nelson Sizer’s patients included

children

Auguste Tamburini’s article is

a review of the findings of recent studies

Which of the following treatments did Jean-Martin Charcot NOT use on patients

magnetic condensers

Which of the following was NOT a purpose of Emil Kraepelin’s surveillance ward

exercise

Which of the following was NOT true of the patients at the Limerick Asylum

they were not locked into the facility

Which of the following is NOT true of colonial asylums

European settlers resisted the creation of asylums in the colonies

Material from The Opal reveals that outsiders

found the local asylum to be clean and orderly

The first wave of construction of asylums in the United States took place between the years

1820-1850

Most new admissions to the Limerick Asylum were sent there by order of

a doctor

The Superintendent of the Patna Lunatic Asylum complained that

staff were incompetent

According to one patient at the Utica State Lunatic Asylum, patients wanted their alienists to

tell them and their families the truth about their prognosis

The practice of “the moral management” of the insane

extended “the moral treatment”

The Superintendent of the Patna Lunatic Asylum considered the most pressing issue there to be

improving sanitation

At the Limerick Asylum, patients

were classified according to their behavior

Which of the following is NOT true about Nelson Sizer’s customers

some sought assistance in contacting a dead relative

The disorder that Kraepelin referred to as “dementia praecox” was later named

schizophrenia

Nelson Sizer believed that

environmental influences could cause changes in the brain

Scientific materialism privileged explanations rooted in which one of these sciences

physics

Which of the following is NOT true about hospitals in the 19^th century

surgeries were performed exclusively at university clinics

Which of the four theories of hallucination was best supported by scientific evidence, according to Auguste Tamburini

sensorial

Nursing began to be considered a profession in

the late-19th century

In Emil Kraepelin’s surveillance ward,

drugs were administered primarily for sedation

The first laboratories

focused on chemistry

Psychiatric clinics in the late-19^th century primarily focused

on research

George Miller Beard believed the neurasthenia was most common

in the northern U.S.

Krafft-Ebing believed that homosexuality should be handled as

a disease

The author Vincent said his problems started

after the murder of a friend in childhood

Which of the following is a true statement

Freud studied with Charcot, but eventually distanced himself from him.

Freud shared a clinical practice for a time with

Josef Breuer