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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. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

2. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminopterin.
(b) Aminoglycosides.
(c) Aminophylline.
(d) Aminata.

3. How was Carla at this time?
(a) She still had cancer.
(b) She was on life support.
(c) Still in remission.
(d) The cancer had come back.

4. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One fourth.
(b) One third.
(c) Half.
(d) One tenth.

5. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.
(a) Rory Delmonico and Bradley Harold.
(b) Rich Dell and Brian Henry.
(c) Roger Denver and Brady Hall.
(d) Richard Doll and Bradford Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orman had cancer where?

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

3. 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.

4. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

5. For whom is the Pap smear named?

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