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

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

3. 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.
(a) 15%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 45%

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.

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

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

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

5. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

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