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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
(a) That such an agency should be formed.
(b) That such an organization would never work.
(c) That such a hospital is not cost-effective.
(d) That such a panel should not be formed.

3. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?
(a) Few benefits.
(b) Many benefits.
(c) No benefits.
(d) Some benefits.

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

5. 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) 1961.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1981.

6. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Caesar Augustus.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Genghis Khan.
(d) Imhotep.

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

8. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Radiology.
(b) Radical surgery.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Lymphoma.

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

10. 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 not to bother.
(b) They would have told Farber to involve them.
(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.

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

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

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

14. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Suppuration.
(b) Supperannuation.
(c) Superarray.
(d) Suppurative.

15. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?
(a) Ultraradical surgery.
(b) Very radical surgery.
(c) Hyporadical sugery.
(d) Hyperradical surgery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is counting?

3. MOPP caused what?

4. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?

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

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