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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Genes could be shuffled from one _______________ to another.
(a) Person.
(b) Cell.
(c) Organism.
(d) Cancerous cell.
2. 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) Gustafson was a real person.
(c) Gustafson had never had cancer.
(d) People could live with cancer.
3. What is STAMP?
(a) Solid Tumor Autologous Marrow Program.
(b) Spongey Tumor Automated Mammogram Program.
(c) Simulated Test and Analysis for Mammograms and Paps.
(d) Special Tumor Analysis Marrow Properties.
4. The conference determined that lung cancer could be caused by what?
(a) Pollution.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Practically anything.
(d) Smoke.
5. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?
(a) The Vice President.
(b) The GOP.
(c) The Secretary of the Interior.
(d) The Surgeon General.
6. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.
(a) Children.
(b) Young girls.
(c) Women.
(d) Old men.
7. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?
(a) Environmental pollution might be the cause of cancer.
(b) Hereditary might be the cause of cancer.
(c) External genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.
(d) Internal genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.
8. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.
(a) Ted Baylor's.
(b) Theodor Boveri's.
(c) Thomas Beauverie's.
(d) Taylor Barri's.
9. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.
(b) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.
(c) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.
(d) They did not care about the lives of the poor.
10. Atossa's War asks the reader to imagine what?
(a) If Atossa had been sick with cancer today, what treatments would she undergo?
(b) If Atossa had traveled alongside cancer from her day until the present time, what kinds of treatments might she have undergone?
(c) What Atossa must have gone through at that time.
(d) Atossa had survived the surgery and become a doctor herself.
11. What question arose from the study of these two genes?
(a) What are other causes of cancer?
(b) Why do people still get cancer?
(c) If two of these types of genes were not sufficient to create cancer, how many would it take?
(d) What other types of genes can cause cancer?
12. Have much Mukherjee's inclinations changed much since the first day of his internship?
(a) A great deal.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Completely.
(d) Very little.
13. How does Mukherjee end the book?
(a) With Farber's cancer story.
(b) With Carla's story.
(c) With the tale of Atossa.
(d) With a tale of Gemaine.
14. _____________. of the seven people in Mukherjee's group continued at the clinic.
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.
15. In 1976, a company named _____________ (Genetic Engineering Technology) was formed in San Francisco.
(a) Genentech.
(b) Gengology.
(c) Genenology.
(d) Genetic Entech.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author discusses lab work, theories, experiments and the potential ____________ causes related to cancer.
2. The theory showed how soot, radiation, cigarette smoke and other outside insults could cause cancer by doing what?
3. At the clinic they would run clinical trials and focus on what?
4. Most chemotherapy drugs by the 1980s targeted what?
5. Some scientists began to wonder what about cancer?
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