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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. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Surgery.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Chemotherapy.

2. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) Cancer.
(b) Community.
(c) Local.
(d) General.

3. 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) 1981.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1971.

4. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

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 only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(c) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(d) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.

Short Answer Questions

1. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.

2. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?

3. MOPP caused what?

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

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

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