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

2. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.
(a) Six month.
(b) Two year.
(c) One year.
(d) Nine month.

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

4. "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) Research.
(d) Gauntlet.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Hyperplasia was what?

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