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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: An Impatient War.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Who was Henry Kaplan?

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

4. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.

5. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

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