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

2. 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) Fueled the fire for Farber and Lasker.
(b) Surprised Farber and Lasker.
(c) Ended Farber and Lasker's campaigning.
(d) Intimidated Farber and Lasker.

3. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.

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

3. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

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

(see the answer key)

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