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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. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(b) Lymphomas.
(c) Leukemias.
(d) Laryngeal Cancer.

2. Orman had cancer where?
(a) In his spleen.
(b) In his lymph nodes.
(c) In his bicep.
(d) In his tibia.

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He was tired of working with young children.
(b) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(c) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(d) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.

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

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Vitamin D.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Folic acid.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.

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

3. 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.

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. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

(see the answer key)

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