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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) Sickle cell.
(b) Iron deficiency.
(c) Vitamin deficiency.
(d) Pernicious.

2. 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.

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

4. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?
(a) Eight.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

5. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?
(a) The beginning of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.
(b) The end of a deeply fractured and contentious period in the history of cancer.
(c) The beginning of new cancer research.
(d) The beginning of huge strides in cancer research.

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

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

8. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.
(a) Columbia Jerome Cairney.
(b) Yale James Call.
(c) Harvard John Cairns.
(d) Brown Jerry Calloway.

15. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.

2. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.

4. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.

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

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