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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Gordon Zubord.
(b) Gerry Zelwegger.
(c) George Zumba.
(d) Gilbert Zweier.

2. In London, the socialized health program required that all doctors be registered with the government. Deaths were noted, as were their causes. Smokers were also noted in reports. Describe the results of the studies conducted from those reports.
(a) Inconclusive.
(b) Very conclusive.
(c) Conclusive.
(d) Somewhat conclusive.

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

4. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.
(a) Cat doctor.
(b) Children's doctor.
(c) Mouse doctor.
(d) People's doctor.

5. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.
(b) They did not care about the lives of the poor.
(c) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.
(d) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.

2. Some scientists began to wonder what about cancer?

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

4. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

5. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?

(see the answer key)

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