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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 determined to make people understand what?
(a) The weakness of cancer.
(b) The fear that cancer causes.
(c) The ways to prevent cancer.
(d) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.

2. How did therapies need to be developed?
(a) From the bottom up.
(b) From completely new research.
(c) From old research and studies.
(d) From the top down.

3. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.
(a) A dizzy spell.
(b) Numbness.
(c) A dull ache.
(d) Shooting pain.

4. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?
(a) They are successful.
(b) They have harmful, disfiguring results.
(c) They have unusual results.
(d) They are traumatic.

5. In the 1960s, Bruce Ames at Berkeley stumbled upon a test for what?
(a) Hereditary carcinogens.
(b) Genetic carcinogens.
(c) Chemical carcinogens.
(d) Early detection of carcinogens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.

2. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?

3. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?

4. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?

5. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.

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