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

2. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.
(a) 1885.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1835.

3. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Vitamin D.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Folic acid.

4. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Imhotep.
(b) Caesar Augustus.
(c) Genghis Khan.
(d) Cleopatra.

5. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

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

3. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.

4. Hyperplasia was what?

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

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