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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the last day of their time as a solid unit, the group began to do what?
(a) Make plans for the next time they were together.
(b) Organize a way of contacting each other in case of an emergency.
(c) Memorialize the patients who had not survived their battle with cancer.
(d) Clean out their lockers.

2. After the introduction of the Pap smear came the clinical trials for what?
(a) HIV tests.
(b) Eye exams.
(c) Mammograms.
(d) Testicular exams.

3. The author discusses lab work, theories, experiments and the potential ____________ causes related to cancer.
(a) Minor.
(b) Major.
(c) Genetic.
(d) Environmental.

4. As of 2009, patients diagnosed with CML lived an average of _______ years.
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 5.

5. In the 1960s, Bruce Ames at Berkeley stumbled upon a test for what?
(a) Chemical carcinogens.
(b) Early detection of carcinogens.
(c) Hereditary carcinogens.
(d) Genetic carcinogens.

6. The theory showed how soot, radiation, cigarette smoke and other outside insults could cause cancer by doing what?
(a) Mutating sarcogenes within the cell.
(b) Mutating cancergenes within the cell.
(c) Mutating oncogenes within the cell.
(d) Mutating carcinogenes within the cell.

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

8. How was Carla at this time?
(a) Still in remission.
(b) The cancer had come back.
(c) She still had cancer.
(d) She was on life support.

9. It was a risky prediction to attempt to verify untested theories through what?
(a) Radical surgeries.
(b) Animal research.
(c) Dissections.
(d) Clinical trials.

10. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

11. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?
(a) The genesis of cancer.
(b) Cancer in its early stages.
(c) The history of cancer.
(d) Cancer in animals.

12. The study of _________viruses is discussed.
(a) Meta.
(b) Retro.
(c) Caulimo.
(d) Pseudo.

13. People began to talk about _________________ and did not want to wait for the trials to be completed or for the FDA to approve the new treatment.
(a) PARP inhibitors.
(b) Gleevec.
(c) MOPP.
(d) Herceptin.

14. For whom is the Pap smear named?
(a) Papalous.
(b) Papanicolaou.
(c) Papua.
(d) Papanoumous.

15. The trend was targeted toward whom?
(a) Wealthy men.
(b) Escorts and their clients.
(c) The poor and derelict.
(d) Chimney sweeps and their apprentices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some scientists began to wonder what about cancer?

2. ________________ such as Doll and Hill, argued that exogenous chemicals caused cancer, although they could not offer a mechanistic explanation for their theory or results.

3. Mukherjee discusses a new drug for the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). _________________ seemed to be the right drug to conquer CML.

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

5. "Part 6: The Fruits of Long Endeavors" begins with a quote by whom?

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