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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) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

2. Geneticists needed to learn what?
(a) To "find" the gene.
(b) To "track" the gene in a new way.
(c) To "hunt" the virus' gene.
(d) To "see" the gene in a new way.

3. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Tumor.
(b) Snake.
(c) Shark.
(d) Crab.

4. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Superarray.
(b) Supperannuation.
(c) Suppurative.
(d) Suppuration.

5. What is counting?
(a) Counting cancer cells.
(b) Measuring cancer.
(c) Distinguishing the dangers of a specific type of cancer.
(d) Studying cancer cell growth.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

2. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?

3. "Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure" begins with a quote from who?

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

5. Scientists begin to analyze genes that were altered in mutant viruses and attempted to isolate what?

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