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

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

3. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.
(a) 30%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 45%
(d) 15%.

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) Other cells.
(b) A large group of cells.
(c) Nothing.
(d) One cell.

5. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Physioplasia.
(b) Neoplasia.
(c) Alloplasia.
(d) Pseudoplasia.

Short Answer Questions

1. One patient commented that she was tired of the ________________.

2. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?

3. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

4. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

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