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

2. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Neoplasia.
(b) Physioplasia.
(c) Alloplasia.
(d) Pseudoplasia.

3. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Did.
(b) Rarely did.
(c) Did not.
(d) Sometimes did.

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.
(a) 1963.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1953.

5. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Vitamin deficiency.
(b) Sickle cell.
(c) Iron deficiency.
(d) Pernicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

2. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

3. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

4. 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.

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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