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

2. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?
(a) Never.
(b) In some cases.
(c) In most cases.
(d) In all cases.

3. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He enjoyed making his patients sick.
(b) He was not well-educated.
(c) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.
(d) He had no bedside manner.

4. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.
(b) Lobby against cancer research.
(c) Create laws against cancer research.
(d) Campaign against Farber.

5. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Books.
(b) Television.
(c) Movies.
(d) Magazines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is counting?

3. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?

4. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?

5. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?

(see the answer key)

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