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

2. __________ trial and error continued.
(a) Very little.
(b) Some.
(c) No.
(d) A great deal of.

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

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

5. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?

2. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?

3. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.

4. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?

5. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

(see the answer key)

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