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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. What was this one physical place?
(a) The surgery ward.
(b) The chemotherapy ward.
(c) The cancer ward.
(d) The radiation ward.

2. Cole believed that surgery was often what?
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Rewarding.
(c) Very Simple.
(d) Very necessary.

3. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Television.
(b) Books.
(c) Movies.
(d) Magazines.

4. Scientists begin to analyze genes that were altered in mutant viruses and attempted to isolate what?
(a) The gene of the healthy cell.
(b) The DNA of the virus.
(c) The mutant virus.
(d) The gene in the virus.

5. In London, the socialized health program required that all doctors be registered with the government. Deaths were noted, as were their causes. Smokers were also noted in reports. Describe the results of the studies conducted from those reports.
(a) Inconclusive.
(b) Conclusive.
(c) Very conclusive.
(d) Somewhat conclusive.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the clinic they would run clinical trials and focus on what?

2. In the 1960s, Bruce Ames at Berkeley stumbled upon a test for what?

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

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

5. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?

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