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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is MOPP?
(a) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.
(b) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(c) A tool used to clean the floor.
(d) A combination chemotherapy regimen.

2. _____________. of the seven people in Mukherjee's group continued at the clinic.
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Howard's.
(b) Mukherjee's.
(c) Halsted's.
(d) Farber's.

4. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1953.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1943.

5. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is too dangerous.
(b) It cannot be the only way.
(c) It is the only way.
(d) It is painful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?

2. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

3. The author discusses lab work, theories, experiments and the potential ____________ causes related to cancer.

4. Mukherjee goes on to discuss the parallels between various types of cancers despite what?

5. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?

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