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

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

3. 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) 1941.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1961.

4. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Institute.
(b) Research.
(c) Report.
(d) Gauntlet.

5. Hyperplasia was what?
(a) Growth by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(b) Growth by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(c) Decay by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(d) Decay by virtue of cells increasing in number.

Short Answer Questions

1. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.

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

3. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?

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

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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