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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. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Cancer.

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

3. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He was not well-educated.
(b) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.
(c) He had no bedside manner.
(d) He enjoyed making his patients sick.

4. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Create laws against cancer research.
(b) Campaign against Farber.
(c) Lobby against cancer research.
(d) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.

5. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?
(a) A government committee.
(b) A political party.
(c) A society.
(d) A scientific organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?

2. On the last day of their time as a solid unit, the group began to do what?

3. The theory showed how soot, radiation, cigarette smoke and other outside insults could cause cancer by doing what?

4. The gene, the SRC gene, is also known as the sarc, short for what?

5. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?

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