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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?
(a) A scientific organization.
(b) A political party.
(c) A society.
(d) A government committee.

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

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

4. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Magazines.
(b) Books.
(c) Television.
(d) Movies.

5. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminoglycosides.
(b) Aminophylline.
(c) Aminopterin.
(d) Aminata.

6. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Physioplasia.
(b) Alloplasia.
(c) Neoplasia.
(d) Pseudoplasia.

7. 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 was tired of the medical field.
(d) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.

8. Who was Henry Kaplan?
(a) A doctor who had treated Kaposi Sarcoma with x-rays.
(b) A doctor who had treated ALL with x-rays.
(c) A doctor who had treated Basal cell carcinoma with x-rays.
(d) A doctor who had treated Hodgkin's with x-rays.

9. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Laryngeal Cancer.
(b) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(c) Leukemias.
(d) Lymphomas.

10. Cole believed that surgery was often what?
(a) Rewarding.
(b) Very Simple.
(c) Very necessary.
(d) Unnecessary.

11. 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) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

13. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?
(a) The intelligence to achieve his goals and to execute the procedure correctly.
(b) The research to back up his claims.
(c) The case studies to support his claims.
(d) The right tools to achieve his goals and to execute the procedure correctly.

14. People began to develop what regarding cancer?
(a) A sense of awareness about the disease.
(b) An internal fear about the disease.
(c) A sense of peace regarding the disease.
(d) An immunity to the disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

2. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.

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

4. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

5. What is MOPP?

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