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

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

3. 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 just begun.
(c) It had grown.
(d) It had lessened somewhat.

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

5. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) National Cancer Institute.
(b) American Cancer Society.
(c) American Cancer Institute.
(d) National Cancer Center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

2. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.

3. 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.

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

5. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

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