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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. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
(a) That such a hospital is not cost-effective.
(b) That such a panel should not be formed.
(c) That such an agency should be formed.
(d) That such an organization would never work.

2. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?
(a) A decrease in cigarette sales.
(b) A warning on cigarettes.
(c) An increase in cigarette sales.
(d) A ban on cigarettes.

3. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have died at the right time.
(b) To have been a pathologist.
(c) To have died from something other than cancer.
(d) To have made so many great discoveries.

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.
(a) 1971.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1941.

5. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Three hundred.
(c) Thirty-five hundred.
(d) Five hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

2. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

3. The trend was targeted toward whom?

4. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?

5. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

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