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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: An Impatient War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
(a) More positive.
(b) More dejected.
(c) More urgent and insistent.
(d) Defeated.

2. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?
(a) Cardiac arrest.
(b) Colon cancer.
(c) Scarlet Fever.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?
(a) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(b) They would have told Farber not to bother.
(c) They would have told Farber to involve them.
(d) They would have told Farber he was not experienced enough.

4. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.
(a) Shin Wa Lee.
(b) Hsin Chieh Lui.
(c) Min Chiu Li.
(d) Win Ming Lu.

5. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.
(a) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 55.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

2. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?

3. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

4. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

5. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

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