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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. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla was cured.
(b) Carla had passed away.
(c) Carla's cancer had returned.
(d) Carla was in remission.

2. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.
(a) Hidden treasure.
(b) Hideout.
(c) Treasure trove.
(d) Trench and bunker.

3. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Books.
(b) Television.
(c) Movies.
(d) Magazines.

4. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Create laws against cancer research.
(b) Lobby against cancer research.
(c) Campaign against Farber.
(d) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.

5. 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 these various types of cancers have very little in common.
(c) The fact that the genetics between subjects were often very different.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?

2. ________________ such as Doll and Hill, argued that exogenous chemicals caused cancer, although they could not offer a mechanistic explanation for their theory or results.

3. __________ trial and error continued.

4. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

5. The remaining people did what?

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