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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The ways to prevent cancer.
(b) The weakness of cancer.
(c) The fear that cancer causes.
(d) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.

2. 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.
(a) 1835.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1845.

3. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is painful.
(b) It is the only way.
(c) It cannot be the only way.
(d) It is too dangerous.

4. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.
(a) 30%.
(b) 45%
(c) 75%.
(d) 15%.

5. Originally, doctors dismissed the cancer. Why?
(a) They assumed that it was simply a sexually transmitted disease.
(b) They assumed that it was a simple cancer to cure.
(c) They assumed it was a hereditary disease.
(d) They did not care about the lives of the poor.

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. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?

3. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?

4. In 1942, UK statisticians approached the Ministry of Health with the shocking news that cancer morbidity had risen ______ fold in the past 20 years.

5. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.

(see the answer key)

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