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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. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A panel of scientists and doctors.
(b) A public hospital.
(c) A private organization.
(d) A government agency.

3. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.
(a) 1905.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1845.

4. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla was cured.
(b) Carla's cancer had returned.
(c) Carla was in remission.
(d) Carla had passed away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

2. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.

3. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.

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

5. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

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