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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. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1963.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1953.

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

3. Who was Henry Kaplan?
(a) A doctor who had treated Kaposi Sarcoma with x-rays.
(b) A doctor who had treated Basal cell carcinoma with x-rays.
(c) A doctor who had treated Hodgkin's with x-rays.
(d) A doctor who had treated ALL with x-rays.

4. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?
(a) Gerry Zelwegger.
(b) George Zumba.
(c) Gilbert Zweier.
(d) Gordon Zubord.

5. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.
(a) 1961.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

3. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?

4. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.

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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