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

2. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had all but silenced.
(b) It had just begun.
(c) It had lessened somewhat.
(d) It had grown.

3. 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) Nine month.
(c) Two year.
(d) Six month.

4. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(b) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(c) A student who found a lump in his side.
(d) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.

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. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

(see the answer key)

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