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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. 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 the dead and was tired of the medical field.
(c) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(d) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.

2. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Cardiac arrest.
(c) Colon cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. Doctors began to associate _______________________ with various forms of cancer.
(a) Dirty jobs.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Soot.
(d) Tobacco and cigarettes.

4. What was this one physical place?
(a) The surgery ward.
(b) The cancer ward.
(c) The radiation ward.
(d) The chemotherapy ward.

5. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Superarray.
(b) Suppuration.
(c) Suppurative.
(d) Supperannuation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

2. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

3. 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.

4. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

5. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.

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