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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. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One tenth.
(b) One fourth.
(c) Half.
(d) One third.

2. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.
(a) 1981.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1941.

3. What is MOPP?
(a) A combination chemotherapy regimen.
(b) A tool used to clean the floor.
(c) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(d) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.

4. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Tumor.
(b) Snake.
(c) Crab.
(d) Shark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

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

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

4. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?

5. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?

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