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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) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(b) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(c) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(d) A student who found a lump in his side.

2. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Institute.
(b) Gauntlet.
(c) Report.
(d) Research.

3. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.
(a) Hidden treasure.
(b) Trench and bunker.
(c) Treasure trove.
(d) Hideout.

4. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.
(a) Antifolates.
(b) Homeopathic remedies.
(c) Folic acid.
(d) Chemotherapy.

5. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla's cancer had returned.
(b) Carla was in remission.
(c) Carla was cured.
(d) Carla had passed away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

2. People began to develop what regarding cancer?

3. 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?

4. What is MOPP?

5. 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.

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