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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. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

2. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?
(a) The Vice President.
(b) The Secretary of the Interior.
(c) The GOP.
(d) The Surgeon General.

3. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?
(a) An increase in cigarette sales.
(b) A warning on cigarettes.
(c) A ban on cigarettes.
(d) A decrease in cigarette sales.

4. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) American Cancer Institute.
(b) National Cancer Center.
(c) American Cancer Society.
(d) National Cancer Institute.

5. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?
(a) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(b) They would have told Farber he was not experienced enough.
(c) They would have told Farber not to bother.
(d) They would have told Farber to involve them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

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

3. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.

4. 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?

5. This time a significant link was found. Lobbies began to appear to do what?

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