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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) Viologists.
(c) Virologists.
(d) Virusists.

2. Mukherjee visited Carla to check in on her. He asked how she survived. What was her response?
(a) Homeopathic medicine.
(b) There was no choice.
(c) Because of his research.
(d) Constant prayer.

3. "Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure" begins with a quote from who?
(a) Sidney Farber.
(b) Siddhartha Mukherjee.
(c) Percival Pott.
(d) David Cantor.

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

5. At the clinic they would run clinical trials and focus on what?
(a) Laboratory experiments.
(b) The rate of survival from cancer.
(c) The day to day care of patients.
(d) Getting clear test results.

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

7. Genes could be shuffled from one _______________ to another.
(a) Cell.
(b) Organism.
(c) Cancerous cell.
(d) Person.

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

9. Most chemotherapy drugs by the 1980s targeted what?
(a) Pre-cancerous cells.
(b) The patient's immune system.
(c) Red blood cells.
(d) Cell growth.

10. It was determined that a DNA copy of virus' genes could do what?
(a) Attach themselves to a cell's genes.
(b) Destroy a cell's genes.
(c) Trick scientists into believing it was a healthy cell.
(d) Replace a cell's genes.

11. Phyllis Clauson writes to the Jimmy Fund about her brother, ____________, the real "Jimmy."
(a) Einar Gustafson.
(b) Jimmy Gustafson.
(c) James Gustafson.
(d) Jimmy John.

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

13. A "Risky prediction" is a term coined by who?
(a) Sidney Farber.
(b) Karl Popper.
(c) Siddhartha Mukherjee.
(d) Percival Pott.

14. Doctors began to associate _______________________ with various forms of cancer.
(a) Tobacco and cigarettes.
(b) Dirty jobs.
(c) Soot.
(d) Drinking.

15. The discovery of scrotal cancer helped to promote what?
(a) Child labor laws.
(b) Protective breathing apparatus.
(c) Unions.
(d) Public health.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ____________________ refers to something that moves incessantly but never gets anywhere.

2. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.

3. The Ministry asked the Medical Research Council to arrange a conference of experts to study the rise of lung cancer. How were the results?

4. Mukherjee goes on to discuss the parallels between various types of cancers despite what?

5. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"

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