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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. One patient commented that she was tired of the ________________.
(a) Smiling oncologist.
(b) Happy oncologist.
(c) Rude oncologist.
(d) Dumb oncologist.

2. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Radiology.
(c) Lymphoma.
(d) Radical surgery.

3. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Vitamin D.
(c) Folic acid.
(d) Maple syrup.

4. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The ways to prevent cancer.
(b) The fear that cancer causes.
(c) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.
(d) The weakness of cancer.

5. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(b) Laryngeal Cancer.
(c) Lymphomas.
(d) Leukemias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is counting?

2. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?

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

4. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?

5. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?

(see the answer key)

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