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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. 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) 1885.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1845.

2. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) AIDS.

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

4. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) Cancer.
(b) General.
(c) Community.
(d) Local.

5. How was Carla at this time?
(a) She still had cancer.
(b) Still in remission.
(c) She was on life support.
(d) The cancer had come back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scientists begin to analyze genes that were altered in mutant viruses and attempted to isolate what?

2. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.

3. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?

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

5. In _________, Percival Pott began to notice a shocking increase in the number of patients that suffered from scrotal cancer.

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