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

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

3. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Suppuration.
(b) Suppurative.
(c) Superarray.
(d) Supperannuation.

4. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Vitamin deficiency.
(b) Iron deficiency.
(c) Sickle cell.
(d) Pernicious.

5. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.
(a) A dizzy spell.
(b) Numbness.
(c) A dull ache.
(d) Shooting pain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.

4. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.

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

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