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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. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have been a pathologist.
(b) To have made so many great discoveries.
(c) To have died at the right time.
(d) To have died from something other than cancer.

2. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(b) Lymphomas.
(c) Laryngeal Cancer.
(d) Leukemias.

3. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A public hospital.
(b) A panel of scientists and doctors.
(c) A government agency.
(d) A private organization.

4. In ___________, the quest for the cure for cancer through the study of cancer biology underwent a drastic reorganization. Scientists returned to studying genes.
(a) 1976.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1986.

5. People began to develop what regarding cancer?
(a) An internal fear about the disease.
(b) An immunity to the disease.
(c) A sense of peace regarding the disease.
(d) A sense of awareness about the disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. The study of _________viruses is discussed.

2. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

3. How was Carla at this time?

4. Did those two oncogenes perform as expected?

5. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?

(see the answer key)

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