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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The gene, the SRC gene, is also known as the sarc, short for what?
(a) Sarcoma.
(b) Sarcophagus.
(c) Sarcomere.
(d) Sarcoidosis.

4. 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.

5. 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) Gleevec.
(b) Herceptin.
(c) PARP inhibitors.
(d) MOPP.

6. 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) Very conclusive.
(b) Conclusive.
(c) Somewhat conclusive.
(d) Mixed and not even remotely conclusive.

7. Who is the person who is the answer to number 179?
(a) A woman who had surgery to remove cancer.
(b) A woman who survived leukemia.
(c) A woman diagnosed with cancer, one who fought every one of cancer's moves until cancer finally won.
(d) A man who had studied cancer and then got it himself.

8. The ____________ theory developed by Varmus and Bishop provided the first comprehensive theory of carcinogenesis.
(a) Oncogene.
(b) Sarcogene.
(c) Cancergene.
(d) Carcinogene.

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

10. Mukherjee discusses the links between what?
(a) Various types of leukemia.
(b) Various types of chemotherapy drugs.
(c) Various types of cancer.
(d) Various types of genes.

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

12. When was this cancer discovered?
(a) In the 1980s.
(b) In the 1950s.
(c) In the 1930s.
(d) In the 1850s.

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

14. The author compares the cure for cancer to the story of whom?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Venus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Bacchus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The mouse embodied what?

2. Most chemotherapy drugs by the 1980s targeted what?

3. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?

4. Who dies?

5. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.

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