View a FREE sample

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

2. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.
(a) Hsin Chieh Lui.
(b) Min Chiu Li.
(c) Win Ming Lu.
(d) Shin Wa Lee.

3. 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) 1963.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1973.

4. __________ trial and error continued.
(a) No.
(b) Some.
(c) Very little.
(d) A great deal of.

5. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?
(a) Colon cancer.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Cardiac arrest.
(d) Scarlet Fever.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

3. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?

4. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.

5. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 230 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample