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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. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVito.
(b) Vincent DeVane.
(c) Vincent DeVita.
(d) Vincent DeVeau.

2. Orman had cancer where?
(a) In his bicep.
(b) In his lymph nodes.
(c) In his tibia.
(d) In his spleen.

3. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?
(a) Blood had no reason to transform itself into anything.
(b) Red blood cells could not become white blood cells.
(c) Blood cells could not multiply.
(d) Blood was not capable of transforming itself into anything.

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

5. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Gauntlet.
(b) Institute.
(c) Research.
(d) Report.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ben Orman?

2. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

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

4. 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.

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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