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

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

3. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminopterin.
(b) Aminophylline.
(c) Aminoglycosides.
(d) Aminata.

4. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Lymphoma.
(c) Radical surgery.
(d) Radiology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

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

3. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.

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

5. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

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