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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Will You Turn Me out If I Can't Get Better?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?
(a) Very radical surgery.
(b) Hyporadical sugery.
(c) Ultraradical surgery.
(d) Hyperradical surgery.

2. 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) Gilbert Zweier.
(b) Gordon Zubord.
(c) George Zumba.
(d) Gerry Zelwegger.

3. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.
(a) 10th.
(b) 20th.
(c) 21st.
(d) 30th.

4. 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 he was not experienced enough.
(b) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(c) They would have told Farber not to bother.
(d) They would have told Farber to involve them.

5. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?
(a) A political party.
(b) A scientific organization.
(c) A government committee.
(d) A society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?

2. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.

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

4. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?

5. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

(see the answer key)

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