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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. The mouse embodied what?
(a) The exact DNA of a human.
(b) The knowledge of scientists at that time.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The maturity of cancer genetics.

2. Did those two oncogenes perform as expected?
(a) Yes.
(b) Almost.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) No.

3. Have much Mukherjee's inclinations changed much since the first day of his internship?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Completely.
(c) A great deal.
(d) Very little.

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

5. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Blue blood.
(b) Poisoned blood.
(c) White blood.
(d) Red blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?

2. What question arose from the study of these two genes?

3. The choice between the two paths is ______________.

4. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

5. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?

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