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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.
(a) Harvard John Cairns.
(b) Columbia Jerome Cairney.
(c) Brown Jerry Calloway.
(d) Yale James Call.

2. MOPP caused what?
(a) Hair loss and weight gain.
(b) Weight loss.
(c) Sterility.
(d) Severe nausea plus untold long term effects.

3. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.
(a) Thirty-five hundred.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Three hundred.

4. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

5. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) AIDS.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1870, the per capita consumption in America was ________________ per year.

2. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.

3. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

4. The trend also raised questions regarding what?

5. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

(see the answer key)

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