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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The trend was targeted toward whom?

3. How does Mukherjee end the book?

4. Who is the person who is the answer to number 179?

5. The mouse embodied what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Genentech? How is this company important?

2. What was STAMP? How did this bring hope to those who suffered from cancer?

3. What are the similarities between AIDS and cancer? Is this important? Why or why not?

4. How does the cure for cancer parallel the story of Achilles?

5. Why did doctors dismiss the cancer found in chimney sweeps? How did cancer continue to be dismissed by others throughout time?

6. What was the oncomouse? Was this successful? Why or why not?

7. What is meant by a "Risky Prediction?"

8. Who were virologists?

9. Who were the successors of Theodor Boveri?

10. Who was Oscar Auerbach? What role did he play in connecting lung cancer to tobacco? Was he a good choice? Why or why not?

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