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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. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Mukherjee's.
(b) Halsted's.
(c) Howard's.
(d) Farber's.

2. By the early _________, cancer researchers had split into three feuding camps.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1940s.

3. A "Risky prediction" is a term coined by who?
(a) Siddhartha Mukherjee.
(b) Sidney Farber.
(c) Karl Popper.
(d) Percival Pott.

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

5. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.
(a) A dizzy spell.
(b) A dull ache.
(c) Numbness.
(d) Shooting pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.

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

3. How did therapies need to be developed?

4. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.

5. 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.

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