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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. What was this one physical place?
(a) The radiation ward.
(b) The chemotherapy ward.
(c) The surgery ward.
(d) The cancer ward.

2. In 1963, three men visited Oscar Auerbach. Why?
(a) He was the CEO of a major cigarette company.
(b) He was the head of oncology at Johns Hopkins.
(c) He was a very wealthy entrepreneur who could financially back cancer studies.
(d) He was one of the foremost pathologists and a top choice when choosing a scientist that may be able to find the cause of lung cancer.

3. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Lobby against cancer research.
(b) Campaign against Farber.
(c) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.
(d) Create laws against cancer research.

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

5. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?
(a) Cardiac arrest.
(b) Scarlet Fever.
(c) Colon cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In _________, Percival Pott began to notice a shocking increase in the number of patients that suffered from scrotal cancer.

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

3. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

4. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.

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

(see the answer key)

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