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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?
(a) They would have told Farber to involve them.
(b) They would have told Farber not to bother.
(c) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(d) They would have told Farber he was not experienced enough.

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

4. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

5. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?
(a) Building from the top down.
(b) From old research and studies.
(c) Building from the bottom up.
(d) From completely new research.

6. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Shark.
(b) Crab.
(c) Snake.
(d) Tumor.

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

8. 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) Gerry Zelwegger.
(b) George Zumba.
(c) Gilbert Zweier.
(d) Gordon Zubord.

9. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

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

11. How did therapies need to be developed?
(a) From completely new research.
(b) From the bottom up.
(c) From old research and studies.
(d) From the top down.

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

13. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?
(a) They are successful.
(b) They are traumatic.
(c) They have harmful, disfiguring results.
(d) They have unusual results.

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

15. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.
(a) Antifolates.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Folic acid.
(d) Homeopathic remedies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?

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

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

4. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?

5. The radical mastectomy needed to be tested against what?

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