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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. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Maple syrup.
(b) Folic acid.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Vitamin D.

2. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVeau.
(b) Vincent DeVane.
(c) Vincent DeVita.
(d) Vincent DeVito.

3. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) One cell.
(c) Other cells.
(d) A large group of cells.

4. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One third.
(b) Half.
(c) One tenth.
(d) One fourth.

5. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(b) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
(c) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(d) Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

2. MOPP caused what?

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

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.

5. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.

(see the answer key)

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