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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. Doctors began to associate _______________________ with various forms of cancer.
(a) Soot.
(b) Tobacco and cigarettes.
(c) Dirty jobs.
(d) Drinking.

2. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?
(a) George Zumba.
(b) Gordon Zubord.
(c) Gilbert Zweier.
(d) Gerry Zelwegger.

3. The trend was targeted toward whom?
(a) The poor and derelict.
(b) Escorts and their clients.
(c) Chimney sweeps and their apprentices.
(d) Wealthy men.

4. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Suppuration.
(b) Supperannuation.
(c) Superarray.
(d) Suppurative.

5. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?
(a) The beginning of new cancer research.
(b) The beginning of huge strides in cancer research.
(c) The end of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.
(d) The beginning of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?

2. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

3. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.

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

5. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.

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