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

2. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(b) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(c) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
(d) Basal Cell Carcinoma.

3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Research.
(b) Institute.
(c) Report.
(d) Gauntlet.

4. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?
(a) A warning on cigarettes.
(b) A decrease in cigarette sales.
(c) An increase in cigarette sales.
(d) A ban on cigarettes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?

2. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?

3. 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.

4. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.

5. The trend also raised questions regarding what?

(see the answer key)

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