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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 was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The fear that cancer causes.
(b) The weakness of cancer.
(c) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.
(d) The ways to prevent cancer.

2. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?
(a) Surprised Farber and Lasker.
(b) Ended Farber and Lasker's campaigning.
(c) Fueled the fire for Farber and Lasker.
(d) Intimidated Farber and Lasker.

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

4. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is the only way.
(b) It cannot be the only way.
(c) It is painful.
(d) It is too dangerous.

5. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

2. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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