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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was this letter first seen?
(a) As a nuisance.
(b) As a wonderful find.
(c) As a surprise.
(d) As a hoax.

3. Could it be determined why Jimmy had survived?
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Almost.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

4. Pott believed that because ________________, that it could be prevented.
(a) The condition was small and localized.
(b) The condition was external in nature.
(c) The condition was found in young men.
(d) The condition was on the scrotum.

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

6. By 1993, Slamon's early phase clinical trials had become a hot topic among ____________ cancer patients.
(a) Testicular.
(b) Cervical.
(c) Brain.
(d) Breast.

7. The conference determined that lung cancer could be caused by what?
(a) Practically anything.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Pneumonia.

8. In 1961 the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the __________________________ wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy, asking for help in fighting cancer.
(a) American Tuberculosis Association.
(b) National Tuberculosis Association.
(c) American Diabetes Association.
(d) National Diabetes Association.

9. The letter was received by whom at the Jimmy Fund development office?
(a) Katie Cummings.
(b) Katrina Cummings.
(c) Kathy Cummings.
(d) Karen Cummings.

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

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

12. The choice between the two paths is ______________.
(a) Financial.
(b) Unusual.
(c) Stressful.
(d) Instinctual.

13. The author compares the cure for cancer to the story of whom?
(a) Bacchus.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Venus.

14. On the last day of their time as a solid unit, the group began to do what?
(a) Make plans for the next time they were together.
(b) Memorialize the patients who had not survived their battle with cancer.
(c) Clean out their lockers.
(d) Organize a way of contacting each other in case of an emergency.

15. Mukherjee goes on to discuss the parallels between various types of cancers despite what?
(a) The fact that the genetics between subjects were often very similar.
(b) The fact that the genetics between subjects were often very different.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The fact that these various types of cancers have very little in common.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the person who is the answer to number 179?

2. Scientists begin to analyze genes that were altered in mutant viruses and attempted to isolate what?

3. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.

4. Phyllis Clauson writes to the Jimmy Fund about her brother, ____________, the real "Jimmy."

5. The author says his heart was in what?

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