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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In ___________, the quest for the cure for cancer through the study of cancer biology underwent a drastic reorganization. Scientists returned to studying genes.
(a) 1986.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1966.

2. Have much Mukherjee's inclinations changed much since the first day of his internship?
(a) Very little.
(b) Completely.
(c) Not at all.
(d) A great deal.

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

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

6. The conference determined that lung cancer could be caused by what?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Practically anything.

7. The letter was received by whom at the Jimmy Fund development office?
(a) Katie Cummings.
(b) Kathy Cummings.
(c) Katrina Cummings.
(d) Karen Cummings.

8. In 1870, the per capita consumption in America was ________________ per year.
(a) Less than one cigarette.
(b) One cigarette.
(c) Five cigarettes.
(d) Ten cigarettes.

9. The real Jimmy is alive and well, living in __________ with three children.
(a) Maryland.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maine.
(d) Montana.

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

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

12. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.
(a) Roger Denver and Brady Hall.
(b) Rich Dell and Brian Henry.
(c) Rory Delmonico and Bradley Harold.
(d) Richard Doll and Bradford Hill.

13. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.
(a) Children.
(b) Young girls.
(c) Old men.
(d) Women.

14. The choice between the two paths is ______________.
(a) Instinctual.
(b) Stressful.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Financial.

15. 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) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was determined that a DNA copy of virus' genes could do what?

2. Doctors began to associate _______________________ with various forms of cancer.

3. Atossa's War asks the reader to imagine what?

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

5. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?

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