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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One patient commented that she was tired of the ________________.
(a) Smiling oncologist.
(b) Rude oncologist.
(c) Happy oncologist.
(d) Dumb oncologist.

3. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Vitamin D.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Folic acid.
(d) Chemotherapy.

4. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.
(a) Shin Wa Lee.
(b) Win Ming Lu.
(c) Min Chiu Li.
(d) Hsin Chieh Lui.

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

6. 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) 1941.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1981.

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

8. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A government agency.
(b) A public hospital.
(c) A panel of scientists and doctors.
(d) A private organization.

9. Cole believed that these theories may have been right when?
(a) In some cases.
(b) In all cases.
(c) Never.
(d) In most cases.

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

11. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) American Cancer Institute.
(b) National Cancer Center.
(c) National Cancer Institute.
(d) American Cancer Society.

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

13. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 55.
(d) 30.

14. 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 he was not experienced enough.
(c) They would have told Farber they were already researching an anti-leukemia drug.
(d) They would have told Farber not to bother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Henry Kaplan?

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

3. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?

4. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.

5. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

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