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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue; Part 1: A Suppuration of Blood.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Sometimes did.
(b) Rarely did.
(c) Did.
(d) Did not.

4. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?
(a) Red blood cells could not become white blood cells.
(b) Blood cells could not multiply.
(c) Blood was not capable of transforming itself into anything.
(d) Blood had no reason to transform itself into anything.

5. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Poisoned blood.
(b) Red blood.
(c) Blue blood.
(d) White blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

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

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. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

5. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

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