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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. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?
(a) The concept of surgery and homeopathic remedies.
(b) The concept of chemical remedies and homeopathic remedies.
(c) The concept of surgery and non-surgery.
(d) The concept of radical surgery and simple surgery.

2. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A public hospital.
(b) A panel of scientists and doctors.
(c) A government agency.
(d) A private organization.

4. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.
(a) Simple surgery.
(b) Grand surgery.
(c) Major surgery.
(d) Radical surgery.

5. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?
(a) Study previous research.
(b) Run a controlled clinical trial.
(c) Run several controlled clinical trials.
(d) Study it in animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

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

3. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.

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

5. What is counting?

(see the answer key)

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