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

2. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Research.
(b) Report.
(c) Gauntlet.
(d) Institute.

3. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.
(a) Mouse doctor.
(b) People's doctor.
(c) Cat doctor.
(d) Children's doctor.

5. Who was Henry Kaplan?
(a) A doctor who had treated Hodgkin's with x-rays.
(b) A doctor who had treated ALL with x-rays.
(c) A doctor who had treated Kaposi Sarcoma with x-rays.
(d) A doctor who had treated Basal cell carcinoma with x-rays.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orman had cancer where?

2. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

4. MOPP caused what?

5. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?

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