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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. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.
(a) Children's doctor.
(b) People's doctor.
(c) Mouse doctor.
(d) Cat doctor.

2. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One third.
(b) One tenth.
(c) Half.
(d) One fourth.

3. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Create laws against cancer research.
(b) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.
(c) Lobby against cancer research.
(d) Campaign against Farber.

4. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Crab.
(b) Shark.
(c) Tumor.
(d) Snake.

5. 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.
(a) A dizzy spell.
(b) Shooting pain.
(c) Numbness.
(d) A dull ache.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

2. 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.

3. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

4. Hyperplasia was what?

5. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

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