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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ______________, led by Rous, claimed that viruses cause cancer, although no such virus had been found in human studies.
(a) Virusologists.
(b) Virologists.
(c) Viologists.
(d) Virusists.

2. 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) American Tuberculosis Association.
(b) National Tuberculosis Association.
(c) National Diabetes Association.
(d) American Diabetes Association.

3. One of the most difficult forms of cancer to treat is what?
(a) Acute promyelocytic leukemia.
(b) Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
(c) Chronic leukemia.
(d) Myelogenous leukemia.

4. In 1963, three men visited Oscar Auerbach. Why?
(a) He was the head of oncology at Johns Hopkins.
(b) He was one of the foremost pathologists and a top choice when choosing a scientist that may be able to find the cause of lung cancer.
(c) He was a very wealthy entrepreneur who could financially back cancer studies.
(d) He was the CEO of a major cigarette company.

5. Mukherjee discusses the links between what?
(a) Various types of cancer.
(b) Various types of genes.
(c) Various types of chemotherapy drugs.
(d) Various types of leukemia.

6. Atossa's War asks the reader to imagine what?
(a) If Atossa had traveled alongside cancer from her day until the present time, what kinds of treatments might she have undergone?
(b) What Atossa must have gone through at that time.
(c) If Atossa had been sick with cancer today, what treatments would she undergo?
(d) Atossa had survived the surgery and become a doctor herself.

7. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.
(a) Thomas Beauverie's.
(b) Theodor Boveri's.
(c) Ted Baylor's.
(d) Taylor Barri's.

8. Mukherjee discusses how cell division is central to what?
(a) The development of cancer.
(b) The destruction of cancer.
(c) Some cell growth.
(d) Every part of our biology.

9. Did those two oncogenes perform as expected?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Almost.

10. What question arose from the study of these two genes?
(a) What are other causes of cancer?
(b) Why do people still get cancer?
(c) What other types of genes can cause cancer?
(d) If two of these types of genes were not sufficient to create cancer, how many would it take?

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

12. The study of _________viruses is discussed.
(a) Caulimo.
(b) Meta.
(c) Pseudo.
(d) Retro.

13. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.
(a) Women.
(b) Young girls.
(c) Children.
(d) Old men.

14. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?
(a) The Secretary of the Interior.
(b) The GOP.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Surgeon General.

15. In _________, Percival Pott began to notice a shocking increase in the number of patients that suffered from scrotal cancer.
(a) 1775.
(b) 1665.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1885.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee discusses a new drug for the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). _________________ seemed to be the right drug to conquer CML.

2. ________________ such as Doll and Hill, argued that exogenous chemicals caused cancer, although they could not offer a mechanistic explanation for their theory or results.

3. At the clinic they would run clinical trials and focus on what?

4. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?

5. It was determined that a DNA copy of virus' genes could do what?

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