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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. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.
(a) Children.
(b) Young girls.
(c) Old men.
(d) Women.

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

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

4. The author compares the cure for cancer to the story of whom?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Bacchus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Venus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee discusses how cell division is central to what?

2. For whom is the Pap smear named?

3. Who dies?

4. In London, the socialized health program required that all doctors be registered with the government. Deaths were noted, as were their causes. Smokers were also noted in reports. Describe the results of the studies conducted from those reports.

5. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Percival Pott notice? How is this significant?

3. What is the role of a laboratory scientist? What type of people are suited for this work?

4. What is the oncogene theory?

5. How did the tide begin to turn regarding Americans' view smoking?

6. What is the significance of the SRC gene?

7. Who were the successors of Theodor Boveri?

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

9. What problems could arise with genetic engineering?

10. Why was Phyllis Clauson at first not believed? Is this surprising? Why or why not?

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