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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Genghis Khan.
(b) Imhotep.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Caesar Augustus.

2. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVane.
(b) Vincent DeVito.
(c) Vincent DeVeau.
(d) Vincent DeVita.

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

4. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.
(b) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.
(c) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.
(d) They did not care about the lives of the poor.

5. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

2. In 1963, three men visited Oscar Auerbach. Why?

3. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

4. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?

5. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?

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