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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. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminophylline.
(b) Aminoglycosides.
(c) Aminopterin.
(d) Aminata.

2. What was this one physical place?
(a) The cancer ward.
(b) The surgery ward.
(c) The radiation ward.
(d) The chemotherapy ward.

3. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVito.
(b) Vincent DeVane.
(c) Vincent DeVita.
(d) Vincent DeVeau.

4. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?
(a) They are successful.
(b) They are traumatic.
(c) They have unusual results.
(d) They have harmful, disfiguring results.

5. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He was tired of working with young children.
(b) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.
(c) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(d) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?

2. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

3. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.

4. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

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