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

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

3. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

4. Albert Lasker was diagnosed with colon cancer and eventually died. Farber was also diagnosed with a type of colon cancer but survived. The more personal brushes with cancer did what?
(a) Surprised Farber and Lasker.
(b) Fueled the fire for Farber and Lasker.
(c) Intimidated Farber and Lasker.
(d) Ended Farber and Lasker's campaigning.

5. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?

2. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

3. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

4. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

5. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.

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