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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ______________, led by Rous, claimed that viruses cause cancer, although no such virus had been found in human studies.
(a) Viologists.
(b) Virusists.
(c) Virologists.
(d) Virusologists.

2. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?
(a) The Surgeon General.
(b) The GOP.
(c) The Vice President.
(d) The Secretary of the Interior.

3. The remaining people did what?
(a) Study the rate of survival from cancer.
(b) Ran clinical trials.
(c) Focus on the day to day care of patients.
(d) Went to work in the lab.

4. Phyllis Clauson said she felt that the world needed to know what?
(a) Gustafson was still alive and that the treatment all those years ago had been successful.
(b) People could live with cancer.
(c) Gustafson was a real person.
(d) Gustafson had never had cancer.

5. The discovery of scrotal cancer helped to promote what?
(a) Public health.
(b) Unions.
(c) Protective breathing apparatus.
(d) Child labor laws.

6. Secretly, Mukherjee believed that the book would end with Carla's death. Was he right?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Almost.
(d) Somewhat, because she was on life support.

7. In 1963, three men visited Oscar Auerbach. Why?
(a) He was a very wealthy entrepreneur who could financially back cancer studies.
(b) He was the CEO of a major cigarette company.
(c) He was one of the foremost pathologists and a top choice when choosing a scientist that may be able to find the cause of lung cancer.
(d) He was the head of oncology at Johns Hopkins.

8. Phyllis Clauson writes to the Jimmy Fund about her brother, ____________, the real "Jimmy."
(a) Einar Gustafson.
(b) Jimmy Gustafson.
(c) James Gustafson.
(d) Jimmy John.

9. One of the most difficult forms of cancer to treat is what?
(a) Chronic leukemia.
(b) Chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
(c) Myelogenous leukemia.
(d) Acute promyelocytic leukemia.

10. Geneticists needed to learn what?
(a) To "see" the gene in a new way.
(b) To "track" the gene in a new way.
(c) To "hunt" the virus' gene.
(d) To "find" the gene.

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

12. 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) 5.
(d) 10.

13. ________-oncogenes and tumor suppressors act the as the molecular pivot points of all cells.
(a) Photo.
(b) Anti.
(c) Proto.
(d) Retro.

14. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.
(b) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.
(c) They did not care about the lives of the poor.
(d) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It was ________ years later when Einar Gustafson returned to Children's Hospital to a full fanfare.

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

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

4. How was Carla at this time?

5. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?

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