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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 begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Genghis Khan.
(b) Caesar Augustus.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Imhotep.

2. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Folic acid.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Vitamin D.

3. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Create laws against cancer research.
(b) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.
(c) Lobby against cancer research.
(d) Campaign against Farber.

4. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) Community.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Local.
(d) General.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

2. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

3. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?

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

5. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.

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