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

2. 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) 45%
(b) 30%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 15%.

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He was tired of working with young children.
(b) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(c) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(d) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.

4. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
(a) Defeated.
(b) More dejected.
(c) More urgent and insistent.
(d) More positive.

5. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(b) A student who found a lump in his side.
(c) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(d) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pott believed that because ________________, that it could be prevented.

2. Susan Sontag is diagnosed with cancer. She begins to notices parallels between cancer and what other disease?

3. The trend also raised questions regarding what?

4. Rather than initiating his studies with cancer in its full-blown form, Auerbach has tried to understand what?

5. After the introduction of the Pap smear came the clinical trials for what?

(see the answer key)

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