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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Will You Turn Me out If I Can't Get Better?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cole believed that surgery was often what?
(a) Very necessary.
(b) Rewarding.
(c) Very Simple.
(d) Unnecessary.

2. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Breast cancer.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Sarcoma.

3. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have been a pathologist.
(b) To have died at the right time.
(c) To have made so many great discoveries.
(d) To have died from something other than cancer.

4. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1953.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1973.

5. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.
(a) Antifolates.
(b) Folic acid.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Homeopathic remedies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

2. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?

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

4. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?

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

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