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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) Fourteen.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Seven.

2. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.
(a) 1981.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1941.

3. 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) Gilbert Zweier.
(d) George Zumba.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?

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

3. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.

4. 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.

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

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