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

2. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1953.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1963.

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

4. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?
(a) Building from the top down.
(b) From completely new research.
(c) From old research and studies.
(d) Building from the bottom up.

5. Who was Henry Kaplan?
(a) A doctor who had treated Hodgkin's with x-rays.
(b) A doctor who had treated Kaposi Sarcoma with x-rays.
(c) A doctor who had treated ALL with x-rays.
(d) A doctor who had treated Basal cell carcinoma with x-rays.

Short Answer Questions

1. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?

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

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

4. 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.

5. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.

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