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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. Geneticists needed to learn what?
(a) To "find" the gene.
(b) To "track" the gene in a new way.
(c) To "hunt" the virus' gene.
(d) To "see" the gene in a new way.

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

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.
(a) 1973.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1963.

4. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?
(a) Building from the top down.
(b) From completely new research.
(c) Building from the bottom up.
(d) From old research and studies.

5. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have died from something other than cancer.
(b) To have been a pathologist.
(c) To have made so many great discoveries.
(d) To have died at the right time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?

2. It was determined that a DNA copy of virus' genes could do what?

3. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.

4. The choice between the two paths is ______________.

5. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?

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