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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. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have died from something other than cancer.
(b) To have been a pathologist.
(c) To have made so many great discoveries.
(d) To have died at the right time.

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

3. 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) 1971.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1961.

4. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Blue blood.
(b) White blood.
(c) Red blood.
(d) Poisoned blood.

5. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?
(a) To fight the cancer.
(b) To earn a large paycheck.
(c) To compete with other oncologists.
(d) To study how cancer destroys cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.

2. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

3. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

4. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.

5. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.

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