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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. A "Risky prediction" is a term coined by who?
(a) Sidney Farber.
(b) Percival Pott.
(c) Siddhartha Mukherjee.
(d) Karl Popper.

2. The radical mastectomy needed to be tested against what?
(a) The simple mastectomy.
(b) The lumpectomy plus radiation.
(c) The lumpectomy.
(d) The simply mastectomy and lumpectomy plus radiation.

3. Who was Henry Kaplan?
(a) A doctor who had treated Basal cell carcinoma with x-rays.
(b) A doctor who had treated Hodgkin's with x-rays.
(c) A doctor who had treated ALL with x-rays.
(d) A doctor who had treated Kaposi Sarcoma with x-rays.

4. The mouse embodied what?
(a) The maturity of cancer genetics.
(b) The knowledge of scientists at that time.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The exact DNA of a human.

5. Orman had cancer where?
(a) In his tibia.
(b) In his bicep.
(c) In his spleen.
(d) In his lymph nodes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Geneticists needed to learn what?

2. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.

3. The gene, the SRC gene, is also known as the sarc, short for what?

4. The remaining people did what?

5. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?

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