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

2. People began to develop what regarding cancer?
(a) An internal fear about the disease.
(b) A sense of peace regarding the disease.
(c) An immunity to the disease.
(d) A sense of awareness about the disease.

3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Institute.
(b) Report.
(c) Research.
(d) Gauntlet.

4. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
(b) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(c) Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(d) Kaposi Sarcoma.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hyperplasia was what?

2. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.

3. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

4. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

5. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.

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