The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Siddhartha Mukherjee
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(b) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(c) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(d) A student who found a lump in his side.

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

3. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It cannot be the only way.
(b) It is too dangerous.
(c) It is painful.
(d) It is the only way.

4. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVita.
(b) Vincent DeVeau.
(c) Vincent DeVito.
(d) Vincent DeVane.

Short Answer Questions

1. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.

2. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

3. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

5. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.

(see the answer key)

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