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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. By the early _________, cancer researchers had split into three feuding camps.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1940s.

2. This time a significant link was found. Lobbies began to appear to do what?
(a) Ban smoking in public places.
(b) Destroy the cigarette companies.
(c) Ban cigarette sales altogether.
(d) Put filters on cigarettes and to ban TV ads for the product.

3. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One third.
(b) One fourth.
(c) One tenth.
(d) Half.

4. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Thirty-five hundred.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) Thirty-five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Have much Mukherjee's inclinations changed much since the first day of his internship?

2. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.

3. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

4. The trend was targeted toward whom?

5. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"

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