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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: An Impatient War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.
(a) Seven.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

2. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) Local.
(b) General.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Community.

3. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.
(a) Hsin Chieh Lui.
(b) Min Chiu Li.
(c) Shin Wa Lee.
(d) Win Ming Lu.

4. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?
(a) Gordon Zubord.
(b) Gerry Zelwegger.
(c) George Zumba.
(d) Gilbert Zweier.

5. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla's cancer had returned.
(b) Carla had passed away.
(c) Carla was cured.
(d) Carla was in remission.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.

2. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

3. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

4. MOPP caused what?

5. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.

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