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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

2. 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) 1941.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1961.

3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Institute.
(b) Gauntlet.
(c) Research.
(d) Report.

4. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?
(a) Gilbert Zweier.
(b) Gerry Zelwegger.
(c) George Zumba.
(d) Gordon Zubord.

5. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Breast cancer.
(d) Sarcoma.

6. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?
(a) To study how cancer destroys cells.
(b) To compete with other oncologists.
(c) To earn a large paycheck.
(d) To fight the cancer.

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

8. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) White blood.
(b) Poisoned blood.
(c) Blue blood.
(d) Red blood.

9. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.
(b) Lobby against cancer research.
(c) Create laws against cancer research.
(d) Campaign against Farber.

10. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.
(a) Columbia Jerome Cairney.
(b) Yale James Call.
(c) Brown Jerry Calloway.
(d) Harvard John Cairns.

11. The radical mastectomy needed to be tested against what?
(a) The simply mastectomy and lumpectomy plus radiation.
(b) The lumpectomy.
(c) The simple mastectomy.
(d) The lumpectomy plus radiation.

12. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1980s.

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

14. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) General.
(b) Local.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Community.

15. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(b) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
(c) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(d) Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is MOPP?

3. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.

4. Cole believed that surgery was often what?

5. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.

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