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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 was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He was not well-educated.
(b) He enjoyed making his patients sick.
(c) He had no bedside manner.
(d) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.

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

3. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.
(a) 55.
(b) 25.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

4. The choice between the two paths is ______________.
(a) Unusual.
(b) Instinctual.
(c) Financial.
(d) Stressful.

5. What was this one physical place?
(a) The radiation ward.
(b) The chemotherapy ward.
(c) The cancer ward.
(d) The surgery ward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orman had cancer where?

2. The battle to attack pre-cancer versus full blown cancer raged on. One of the most significant discoveries was made by George ____________________, a student who was assigned to studying the menses of guinea pigs.

3. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.

4. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?

5. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?

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