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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Spring 2005, Mukherjee had to make a decision. What was this decision?
(a) To work as a pediatrician or a clinician.
(b) To continue working in cancer research or become a surgeon.
(c) To work with children or animals.
(d) To work as a clinician or a laboratory scientist.

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

3. _____________. of the seven people in Mukherjee's group continued at the clinic.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

4. Pott believed that because ________________, that it could be prevented.
(a) The condition was found in young men.
(b) The condition was external in nature.
(c) The condition was on the scrotum.
(d) The condition was small and localized.

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

6. Atossa's War asks the reader to imagine what?
(a) What Atossa must have gone through at that time.
(b) Atossa had survived the surgery and become a doctor herself.
(c) If Atossa had been sick with cancer today, what treatments would she undergo?
(d) If Atossa had traveled alongside cancer from her day until the present time, what kinds of treatments might she have undergone?

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

8. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?
(a) An increase in cigarette sales.
(b) A ban on cigarettes.
(c) A warning on cigarettes.
(d) A decrease in cigarette sales.

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

10. What question arose from the study of these two genes?
(a) Why do people still get cancer?
(b) What other types of genes can cause cancer?
(c) What are other causes of cancer?
(d) If two of these types of genes were not sufficient to create cancer, how many would it take?

11. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) AIDS.

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

13. "Part 6: The Fruits of Long Endeavors" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Sherlock Holmes.
(b) John H. Watson.
(c) Watson Smith.
(d) James Watson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee discusses how cell division is central to what?

2. Phyllis Clauson writes to the Jimmy Fund about her brother, ____________, the real "Jimmy."

3. Who dies?

4. How does Mukherjee end the book?

5. Secretly, Mukherjee believed that the book would end with Carla's death. Was he right?

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