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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. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.
(a) Grand surgery.
(b) Simple surgery.
(c) Radical surgery.
(d) Major surgery.

2. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1980s.

3. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Sarcoma.
(d) Breast cancer.

4. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(b) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(c) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(d) A student who found a lump in his side.

5. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?
(a) Environmental pollution might be the cause of cancer.
(b) Hereditary might be the cause of cancer.
(c) External genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.
(d) Internal genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?

3. The author says his heart was in what?

4. 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?

5. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

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