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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. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?
(a) Cancer in its early stages.
(b) Cancer in animals.
(c) The history of cancer.
(d) The genesis of cancer.

2. 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.

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

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

5. Mukherjee discusses the links between what?
(a) Various types of leukemia.
(b) Various types of chemotherapy drugs.
(c) Various types of cancer.
(d) Various types of genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The study of _________viruses is discussed.

2. Who dies?

3. How was this letter first seen?

4. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.

5. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Einar Gustafson? How is this significant?

4. How did the quest for the cure for cancer undergo a drastic reorganization in 1976?

5. What is James Watson's quote? How is this significant?

6. Who were virologists?

7. Who were epidemiologists?

8. Who were the successors of Theodor Boveri?

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

10. Who was George Papanicolaou? How was his work important?

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