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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 only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?
(a) Study it in animals.
(b) Run a controlled clinical trial.
(c) Run several controlled clinical trials.
(d) Study previous research.

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

3. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The weakness of cancer.
(b) The ways to prevent cancer.
(c) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.
(d) The fear that cancer causes.

4. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"
(a) Watson's.
(b) Farber's.
(c) Leder's.
(d) Popper's.

5. _____________. of the seven people in Mukherjee's group continued at the clinic.
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orman had cancer where?

2. The author says his heart was in what?

3. Mukherjee goes on to discuss the parallels between various types of cancers despite what?

4. The ______________, led by Rous, claimed that viruses cause cancer, although no such virus had been found in human studies.

5. The choice between the two paths is ______________.

(see the answer key)

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