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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 carcinogenes within the cell.
(c) Mutating cancergenes within the cell.
(d) Mutating oncogenes within the cell.

2. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?
(a) Environmental pollution might be the cause of cancer.
(b) External genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.
(c) Hereditary might be the cause of cancer.
(d) Internal genes to the cell might be the cause of cancer.

3. Genes could be shuffled from one _______________ to another.
(a) Person.
(b) Cell.
(c) Organism.
(d) Cancerous cell.

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

5. How was this letter first seen?
(a) As a nuisance.
(b) As a hoax.
(c) As a wonderful find.
(d) As a surprise.

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

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

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

9. 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) Clean out their lockers.
(c) Make plans for the next time they were together.
(d) Memorialize the patients who had not survived their battle with cancer.

10. Could it be determined why Jimmy had survived?
(a) Yes.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Almost.
(d) No.

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

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

13. It was ________ years later when Einar Gustafson returned to Children's Hospital to a full fanfare.
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

14. Did those two oncogenes perform as expected?
(a) Almost.
(b) No.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Yes.

15. Mukherjee goes on to discuss the parallels between various types of cancers despite what?
(a) The fact that the genetics between subjects were often very different.
(b) The fact that these various types of cancers have very little in common.
(c) The fact that the genetics between subjects were often very similar.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?

2. By the early _________, cancer researchers had split into three feuding camps.

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

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. In 1961 the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the __________________________ wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy, asking for help in fighting cancer.

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