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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. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had all but silenced.
(b) It had lessened somewhat.
(c) It had just begun.
(d) It had grown.

2. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Report.
(b) Institute.
(c) Gauntlet.
(d) Research.

3. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Pseudoplasia.
(b) Physioplasia.
(c) Alloplasia.
(d) Neoplasia.

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

5. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?
(a) Red blood cells.
(b) White blood cells.
(c) Oxyphil cells.
(d) Epithelial cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

2. Hyperplasia was what?

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

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

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

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