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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. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.
(a) Nine month.
(b) One year.
(c) Six month.
(d) Two year.

2. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(b) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(c) A student who found a lump in his side.
(d) An artist who found a lump in his arm.

3. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.
(a) 75%.
(b) 45%
(c) 15%.
(d) 30%.

4. 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 the dead and never treated a live patient.
(c) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(d) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.

5. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?
(a) Red blood cells.
(b) Epithelial cells.
(c) Oxyphil cells.
(d) White blood cells.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hyperplasia was what?

3. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

4. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

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