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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 explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

2. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One tenth.
(b) One fourth.
(c) One third.
(d) Half.

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

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) One cell.
(b) A large group of cells.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Other cells.

5. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(b) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.
(c) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(d) He was tired of working with young children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.

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

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

4. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.

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

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