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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?
(a) To have died from something other than cancer.
(b) To have made so many great discoveries.
(c) To have died at the right time.
(d) To have been a pathologist.

2. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?
(a) To fight the cancer.
(b) To compete with other oncologists.
(c) To earn a large paycheck.
(d) To study how cancer destroys cells.

3. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
(a) More dejected.
(b) More positive.
(c) More urgent and insistent.
(d) Defeated.

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

5. MOPP caused what?
(a) Weight loss.
(b) Severe nausea plus untold long term effects.
(c) Sterility.
(d) Hair loss and weight gain.

6. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla's cancer had returned.
(b) Carla had passed away.
(c) Carla was in remission.
(d) Carla was cured.

7. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.
(b) The fear that cancer causes.
(c) The weakness of cancer.
(d) The ways to prevent cancer.

8. In hypertrophy, the number of cells __________ change.
(a) Did not.
(b) Sometimes did.
(c) Rarely did.
(d) Did.

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

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

11. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?
(a) In Indianapolis and Chicago.
(b) In Toledo and Columbus.
(c) In Knoxville and St. Louis.
(d) In Bethesda and Memphis.

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

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

14. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.

2. 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?

3. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?

4. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.

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.

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