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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. Geneticists needed to learn what?
(a) To "find" the gene.
(b) To "see" the gene in a new way.
(c) To "hunt" the virus' gene.
(d) To "track" the gene in a new way.

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.
(a) 1973.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1963.

3. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla had passed away.
(b) Carla's cancer had returned.
(c) Carla was cured.
(d) Carla was in remission.

4. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"
(a) Watson's.
(b) Popper's.
(c) Farber's.
(d) Leder's.

5. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.
(a) 1845.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?

2. What is MOPP?

3. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.

4. ________________ such as Doll and Hill, argued that exogenous chemicals caused cancer, although they could not offer a mechanistic explanation for their theory or results.

5. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.

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