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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. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) Cancer.
(b) Local.
(c) General.
(d) Community.

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

3. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.
(a) A dull ache.
(b) Numbness.
(c) Shooting pain.
(d) A dizzy spell.

4. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Suppuration.
(b) Suppurative.
(c) Superarray.
(d) Supperannuation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?

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

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

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