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

2. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?
(a) They would have told Farber not to bother.
(b) They would have told Farber he was not experienced enough.
(c) They would have told Farber to involve them.
(d) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.

3. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.

3. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

4. 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.

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

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