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

2. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
(a) That such a hospital is not cost-effective.
(b) That such a panel should not be formed.
(c) That such an agency should be formed.
(d) That such an organization would never work.

3. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Vitamin deficiency.
(b) Pernicious.
(c) Sickle cell.
(d) Iron deficiency.

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

5. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

3. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.

4. Orman had cancer where?

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

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