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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) American Cancer Society.
(b) American Cancer Institute.
(c) National Cancer Center.
(d) National Cancer Institute.

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

3. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(b) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(c) A student who found a lump in his side.
(d) An artist who found a lump in his arm.

4. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Suppuration.
(b) Suppurative.
(c) Superarray.
(d) Supperannuation.

5. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ trial and error continued.

2. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.

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

4. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?

5. 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.

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