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

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

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

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

5. 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) 1845.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1885.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

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