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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 showed how soot, radiation, cigarette smoke and other outside insults could cause cancer by doing what?
(a) Mutating sarcogenes within the cell.
(b) Mutating carcinogenes within the cell.
(c) Mutating cancergenes within the cell.
(d) Mutating oncogenes within the cell.

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

3. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.
(b) He was not well-educated.
(c) He had no bedside manner.
(d) He enjoyed making his patients sick.

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

5. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?
(a) In Toledo and Columbus.
(b) In Bethesda and Memphis.
(c) In Knoxville and St. Louis.
(d) In Indianapolis and Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was this one physical place?

3. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

4. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

5. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?

(see the answer key)

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