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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is MOPP?
(a) A combination chemotherapy regimen.
(b) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(c) A tool used to clean the floor.
(d) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.

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

3. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?
(a) Study previous research.
(b) Run a controlled clinical trial.
(c) Study it in animals.
(d) Run several controlled clinical trials.

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

5. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) A limited.
(b) An infinite.
(c) A small.
(d) A great.

6. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had just begun.
(b) It had grown.
(c) It had lessened somewhat.
(d) It had all but silenced.

7. Hyperplasia was what?
(a) Decay by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(b) Growth by virtue of cells increasing in number.
(c) Growth by virtue of cells decreasing in number.
(d) Decay by virtue of cells decreasing in number.

8. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Vitamin deficiency.
(b) Iron deficiency.
(c) Sickle cell.
(d) Pernicious.

9. 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.

10. 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.
(a) A dull ache.
(b) Numbness.
(c) Shooting pain.
(d) A dizzy spell.

11. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1973.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1943.

12. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One fourth.
(b) Half.
(c) One tenth.
(d) One third.

13. What was this one physical place?
(a) The radiation ward.
(b) The cancer ward.
(c) The surgery ward.
(d) The chemotherapy ward.

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

15. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.
(a) Mouse doctor.
(b) People's doctor.
(c) Children's doctor.
(d) Cat doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?

2. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?

3. This place was 'our __________________,' a chemotherapist recalls.

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

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

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