The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Siddhartha Mukherjee
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

2. On the last day of their time as a solid unit, the group began to do what?
(a) Organize a way of contacting each other in case of an emergency.
(b) Memorialize the patients who had not survived their battle with cancer.
(c) Clean out their lockers.
(d) Make plans for the next time they were together.

3. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?
(a) Hyporadical sugery.
(b) Very radical surgery.
(c) Hyperradical surgery.
(d) Ultraradical surgery.

4. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla was cured.
(b) Carla had passed away.
(c) Carla was in remission.
(d) Carla's cancer had returned.

5. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

2. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?

3. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.

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

5. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

(see the answer key)

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