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

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

3. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) A limited.
(b) A great.
(c) An infinite.
(d) A small.

4. Who dies?
(a) Evarts Graham.
(b) Percival Pott.
(c) Sidney Farber.
(d) Oscar Auerbach.

5. For whom is the Pap smear named?
(a) Papanicolaou.
(b) Papanoumous.
(c) Papalous.
(d) Papua.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?

2. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

3. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.

4. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

5. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.

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