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

2. 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.

3. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Howard's.
(b) Halsted's.
(c) Mukherjee's.
(d) Farber's.

4. During that time period, ________________ were often employed as assistants to chimney sweeps, often with fatal results.
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Old men.
(d) Young girls.

5. The battle to attack pre-cancer versus full blown cancer raged on. One of the most significant discoveries was made by George ____________________, a student who was assigned to studying the menses of guinea pigs.
(a) Papua.
(b) Papalous.
(c) Papanoumous.
(d) Papanicolaou.

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?

2. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.

3. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

4. "Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure" begins with a quote from who?

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

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