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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. 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?
(a) Blood cells could not multiply.
(b) Blood was not capable of transforming itself into anything.
(c) Red blood cells could not become white blood cells.
(d) Blood had no reason to transform itself into anything.

2. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had lessened somewhat.
(b) It had grown.
(c) It had all but silenced.
(d) It had just begun.

3. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?
(a) The beginning of huge strides in cancer research.
(b) The end of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.
(c) The beginning of new cancer research.
(d) The beginning of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.

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

5. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Richard Nixon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?

2. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.

3. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?

4. MOPP caused what?

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?

(see the answer key)

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