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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. The trend was targeted toward whom?
(a) Chimney sweeps and their apprentices.
(b) Escorts and their clients.
(c) Wealthy men.
(d) The poor and derelict.

2. Have much Mukherjee's inclinations changed much since the first day of his internship?
(a) Very little.
(b) Not at all.
(c) A great deal.
(d) Completely.

3. The ____________ theory developed by Varmus and Bishop provided the first comprehensive theory of carcinogenesis.
(a) Carcinogene.
(b) Oncogene.
(c) Cancergene.
(d) Sarcogene.

4. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?
(a) In Indianapolis and Chicago.
(b) In Bethesda and Memphis.
(c) In Toledo and Columbus.
(d) In Knoxville and St. Louis.

5. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is the only way.
(b) It cannot be the only way.
(c) It is painful.
(d) It is too dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.

2. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

3. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

4. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?

5. _____________. of the seven people in Mukherjee's group continued at the clinic.

(see the answer key)

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