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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. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Radiology.
(b) Lymphoma.
(c) Radical surgery.
(d) Chemotherapy.

2. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Iron deficiency.
(b) Sickle cell.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Vitamin deficiency.

3. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?
(a) White blood cells.
(b) Oxyphil cells.
(c) Red blood cells.
(d) Epithelial cells.

4. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Imhotep.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Caesar Augustus.
(d) Genghis Khan.

5. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Did not.
(b) Did.
(c) Rarely did.
(d) Sometimes did.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.

2. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.

3. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.

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

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

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