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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 only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?
(a) Study previous research.
(b) Study it in animals.
(c) Run several controlled clinical trials.
(d) Run a controlled clinical trial.

2. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had grown.
(b) It had all but silenced.
(c) It had lessened somewhat.
(d) It had just begun.

3. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Sometimes did.
(b) Rarely did.
(c) Did.
(d) Did not.

4. The choice between the two paths is ______________.
(a) Stressful.
(b) Financial.
(c) Instinctual.
(d) Unusual.

5. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?
(a) Hereditary might be the cause of cancer.
(b) External genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.
(c) Environmental pollution might be the cause of cancer.
(d) Internal genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?

2. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.

3. In 1870, the per capita consumption in America was ________________ per year.

4. Orman had cancer where?

5. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

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