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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. One patient commented that she was tired of the ________________.
(a) Dumb oncologist.
(b) Rude oncologist.
(c) Smiling oncologist.
(d) Happy oncologist.

2. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
(a) Defeated.
(b) More dejected.
(c) More positive.
(d) More urgent and insistent.

3. What is MOPP?
(a) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.
(b) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(c) A tool used to clean the floor.
(d) A combination chemotherapy regimen.

4. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.
(a) Two year.
(b) One year.
(c) Six month.
(d) Nine month.

5. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?
(a) Cancer in its early stages.
(b) Cancer in animals.
(c) The history of cancer.
(d) The genesis of cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1960s, Bruce Ames at Berkeley stumbled upon a test for what?

2. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

3. The discovery of scrotal cancer helped to promote what?

4. In 1961 the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the __________________________ wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy, asking for help in fighting cancer.

5. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

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