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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. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

2. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.
(a) 55.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

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

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

5. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The fear that cancer causes.
(b) The weakness of cancer.
(c) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.
(d) The ways to prevent cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?

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.

3. Hyperplasia was what?

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

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

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