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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 _________, Percival Pott began to notice a shocking increase in the number of patients that suffered from scrotal cancer.
(a) 1775.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1995.

2. It was determined that a DNA copy of virus' genes could do what?
(a) Attach themselves to a cell's genes.
(b) Trick scientists into believing it was a healthy cell.
(c) Destroy a cell's genes.
(d) Replace a cell's genes.

3. Did those two oncogenes perform as expected?
(a) No.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Almost.
(d) Yes.

4. Some scientists began to wonder what about cancer?
(a) If there was a carrier.
(b) If it was hereditary.
(c) If it was communicable.
(d) If only certain types of people could get it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?

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

3. 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.

4. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.

5. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?

(see the answer key)

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