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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. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A government agency.
(b) A public hospital.
(c) A private organization.
(d) A panel of scientists and doctors.

2. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.
(a) 10th.
(b) 20th.
(c) 21st.
(d) 30th.

3. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) A large group of cells.
(b) Nothing.
(c) One cell.
(d) Other cells.

4. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Snake.
(b) Tumor.
(c) Crab.
(d) Shark.

5. 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) 30%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 45%
(d) 75%.

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. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

3. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

4. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.

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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