The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Siddhartha Mukherjee
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Siddhartha Mukherjee
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

3. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) National Cancer Center.
(b) American Cancer Society.
(c) American Cancer Institute.
(d) National Cancer Institute.

4. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVita.
(b) Vincent DeVito.
(c) Vincent DeVane.
(d) Vincent DeVeau.

5. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Heart disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?

2. This last group possessed only circumstantial evidence to prove what?

3. Who dies?

4. The author says his heart was in what?

5. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.

(see the answer key)

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