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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. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Maple syrup.
(b) Folic acid.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Vitamin D.

2. In Spring 2005, Mukherjee had to make a decision. What was this decision?
(a) To work as a clinician or a laboratory scientist.
(b) To continue working in cancer research or become a surgeon.
(c) To work with children or animals.
(d) To work as a pediatrician or a clinician.

3. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?
(a) An increase in cigarette sales.
(b) A warning on cigarettes.
(c) A decrease in cigarette sales.
(d) A ban on cigarettes.

4. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.
(a) Ted Baylor's.
(b) Taylor Barri's.
(c) Thomas Beauverie's.
(d) Theodor Boveri's.

5. The Ministry asked the Medical Research Council to arrange a conference of experts to study the rise of lung cancer. How were the results?
(a) Mixed and not even remotely conclusive.
(b) Conclusive.
(c) Very conclusive.
(d) Somewhat conclusive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What question arose from the study of these two genes?

3. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

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

5. Geneticists needed to learn what?

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