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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) White blood cells.
(b) Red blood cells.
(c) Oxyphil cells.
(d) Epithelial cells.

2. Hyperplasia was what?
(a) Growth by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(b) Decay by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(c) Growth by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(d) Decay by virtue of cells increasing in number.

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

4. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.
(a) 30.
(b) 55.
(c) 40.
(d) 25.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

5. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

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