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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 scientific organization.
(d) A society.

2. 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 smoking in public places.
(d) Ban cigarette sales altogether.

3. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.
(a) Richard Doll and Bradford Hill.
(b) Roger Denver and Brady Hall.
(c) Rich Dell and Brian Henry.
(d) Rory Delmonico and Bradley Harold.

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

5. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?
(a) To fight the cancer.
(b) To study how cancer destroys cells.
(c) To compete with other oncologists.
(d) To earn a large paycheck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.

2. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

3. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

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

5. How did therapies need to be developed?

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