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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: A Distorted Version of Our Normal Selves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.
(a) 20th.
(b) 30th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 21st.

2. What is counting?
(a) Counting cancer cells.
(b) Distinguishing the dangers of a specific type of cancer.
(c) Measuring cancer.
(d) Studying cancer cell growth.

3. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?
(a) Never.
(b) In most cases.
(c) In some cases.
(d) In all cases.

4. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.
(a) Major surgery.
(b) Radical surgery.
(c) Simple surgery.
(d) Grand surgery.

5. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

4. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

5. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

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