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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. This time a significant link was found. Lobbies began to appear to do what?
(a) Ban cigarette sales altogether.
(b) Destroy the cigarette companies.
(c) Ban smoking in public places.
(d) Put filters on cigarettes and to ban TV ads for the product.

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

3. The discovery of scrotal cancer helped to promote what?
(a) Unions.
(b) Child labor laws.
(c) Public health.
(d) Protective breathing apparatus.

4. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Laryngeal Cancer.
(b) Leukemias.
(c) Lymphomas.
(d) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.

5. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?
(a) The concept of chemical remedies and homeopathic remedies.
(b) The concept of surgery and non-surgery.
(c) The concept of radical surgery and simple surgery.
(d) The concept of surgery and homeopathic remedies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

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

3. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

4. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?

5. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

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