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

2. Scientists begin to analyze genes that were altered in mutant viruses and attempted to isolate what?
(a) The gene in the virus.
(b) The mutant virus.
(c) The DNA of the virus.
(d) The gene of the healthy cell.

3. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

5. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) A small.
(b) An infinite.
(c) A limited.
(d) A great.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?

2. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?

3. How did therapies need to be developed?

4. It was a risky prediction to attempt to verify untested theories through what?

5. What was this one physical place?

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