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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. One patient commented that she was tired of the ________________.
(a) Smiling oncologist.
(b) Dumb oncologist.
(c) Rude oncologist.
(d) Happy oncologist.

2. The ____________ theory developed by Varmus and Bishop provided the first comprehensive theory of carcinogenesis.
(a) Cancergene.
(b) Carcinogene.
(c) Sarcogene.
(d) Oncogene.

3. 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 died at the right time.
(c) To have made so many great discoveries.
(d) To have died from something other than cancer.

4. Cole believed that surgery was often what?
(a) Rewarding.
(b) Very Simple.
(c) Very necessary.
(d) Unnecessary.

5. The author says his heart was in what?
(a) Laboratory work.
(b) Veterinary medicine.
(c) Clinical work.
(d) Pediatrics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

2. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"

3. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.

4. The study of _________viruses is discussed.

5. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

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