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

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

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

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

5. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A large group of cells.
(c) Other cells.
(d) One cell.

6. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.
(a) 1885.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1835.

7. What was the argument regarding chemotherapy?
(a) It is the only way.
(b) It is too dangerous.
(c) It cannot be the only way.
(d) It is painful.

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

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

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

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) 1963.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1943.

12. __________ trial and error continued.
(a) No.
(b) Some.
(c) A great deal of.
(d) Very little.

13. 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) 1971.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1961.

14. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

15. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?
(a) Blood was not capable of transforming itself into anything.
(b) Blood had no reason to transform itself into anything.
(c) Red blood cells could not become white blood cells.
(d) Blood cells could not multiply.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

2. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?

3. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

4. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

5. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

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