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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. 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.

2. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) One cell.
(c) Other cells.
(d) A large group of cells.

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(b) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(c) He was tired of working with young children.
(d) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.

4. 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 they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(c) They would have told Farber he was not experienced enough.
(d) They would have told Farber to involve them.

5. 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) 1885.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

4. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.

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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