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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. 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) The fact that the genetics between subjects were often very similar.
(d) All of the above.

2. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla had passed away.
(b) Carla was cured.
(c) Carla was in remission.
(d) Carla's cancer had returned.

3. The author says his heart was in what?
(a) Laboratory work.
(b) Pediatrics.
(c) Clinical work.
(d) Veterinary medicine.

4. It was a risky prediction to attempt to verify untested theories through what?
(a) Radical surgeries.
(b) Dissections.
(c) Clinical trials.
(d) Animal research.

5. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.
(a) Women.
(b) Old men.
(c) Children.
(d) Young girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?

2. Who dies?

3. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?

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

5. Did those two oncogenes perform as expected?

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