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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Did not.
(b) Did.
(c) Rarely did.
(d) Sometimes did.

2. MOPP caused what?
(a) Sterility.
(b) Severe nausea plus untold long term effects.
(c) Hair loss and weight gain.
(d) Weight loss.

3. Orman had cancer where?
(a) In his spleen.
(b) In his tibia.
(c) In his bicep.
(d) In his lymph nodes.

4. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?
(a) They are successful.
(b) They have unusual results.
(c) They have harmful, disfiguring results.
(d) They are traumatic.

5. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?
(a) Eight.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

6. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) General.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Local.
(d) Community.

7. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

8. Hyperplasia was what?
(a) Growth by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(b) Growth by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(c) Decay by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(d) Decay by virtue of cells decreasing in number.

9. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had just begun.
(b) It had lessened somewhat.
(c) It had grown.
(d) It had all but silenced.

10. 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) 1885.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1845.

11. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.
(a) Hsin Chieh Lui.
(b) Shin Wa Lee.
(c) Min Chiu Li.
(d) Win Ming Lu.

12. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) Half.
(b) One third.
(c) One fourth.
(d) One tenth.

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

14. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) A great.
(b) A limited.
(c) An infinite.
(d) A small.

15. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.
(a) 30th.
(b) 20th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 21st.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cole believed that surgery was often what?

2. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

3. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

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

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

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