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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. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla was cured.
(b) Carla's cancer had returned.
(c) Carla was in remission.
(d) Carla had passed away.

2. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Poisoned blood.
(b) Red blood.
(c) White blood.
(d) Blue blood.

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

4. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The ways to prevent cancer.
(b) The fear that cancer causes.
(c) The weakness of cancer.
(d) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Folic acid.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Vitamin D.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

2. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?

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

4. Orman was diagnosed with what?

5. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.

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