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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.
(a) 1981.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1961.

3. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?
(a) Never.
(b) In some cases.
(c) In most cases.
(d) In all cases.

4. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.
(a) Brown Jerry Calloway.
(b) Columbia Jerome Cairney.
(c) Yale James Call.
(d) Harvard John Cairns.

5. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Movies.
(b) Magazines.
(c) Television.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did therapies need to be developed?

2. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

3. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.

4. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

5. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Farber fortunate to have lived in the right time, and also died at the right time?

2. On what two fundamental tenets is biology based? Explain these tenets.

3. How did Virchow stumble upon cancer?

4. Choose a period of history that is significant to cancer research. How is this significant?

5. How is cancer a total disease? How is this important?

6. What did Moya Cole think of Halsted's theories? Why?

7. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

8. Describe Min Chiu Li's work. Why did others believe further treatment was not necessary?

9. What were the problems with VAMP? How might these be corrected?

10. Who is Ben Orman? How is he significant to the study of cancer?

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