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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue; Part 1: A Suppuration of Blood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hyperplasia was what?
(a) Growth by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(b) Growth by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(c) Decay by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(d) Decay by virtue of cells decreasing in number.

2. 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.

3. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Blue blood.
(b) White blood.
(c) Poisoned blood.
(d) Red blood.

4. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Suppuration.
(b) Suppurative.
(c) Supperannuation.
(d) Superarray.

5. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had just begun.
(b) It had all but silenced.
(c) It had grown.
(d) It had lessened somewhat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

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

3. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from 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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