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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. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

2. In 1870, the per capita consumption in America was ________________ per year.
(a) Ten cigarettes.
(b) Less than one cigarette.
(c) Five cigarettes.
(d) One cigarette.

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

4. In 1961 the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the __________________________ wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy, asking for help in fighting cancer.
(a) National Tuberculosis Association.
(b) National Diabetes Association.
(c) American Tuberculosis Association.
(d) American Diabetes Association.

5. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.
(b) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.
(c) They did not care about the lives of the poor.
(d) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. The discovery of scrotal cancer helped to promote what?

2. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?

3. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?

4. Who dies?

5. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?

(see the answer key)

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