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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. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?
(a) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(b) They would have told Farber not to bother.
(c) They would have told Farber to involve them.
(d) They would have told Farber he was not experienced enough.
2. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.
(a) Antifolates.
(b) Homeopathic remedies.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Folic acid.
3. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Lymphomas.
(b) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(c) Leukemias.
(d) Laryngeal Cancer.
4. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Radiology.
(c) Lymphoma.
(d) Radical surgery.
5. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York.
Short Answer Questions
1. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
2. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.
3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
4. 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.
5. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
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