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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. People began to develop what regarding cancer?
(a) An internal fear about the disease.
(b) A sense of peace regarding the disease.
(c) A sense of awareness about the disease.
(d) An immunity to the disease.

2. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1943.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1963.

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

4. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) National Cancer Center.
(b) National Cancer Institute.
(c) American Cancer Society.
(d) American Cancer Institute.

5. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminophylline.
(b) Aminata.
(c) Aminopterin.
(d) Aminoglycosides.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

2. How did therapies need to be developed?

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

4. 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.

5. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

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