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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?
(a) Building from the top down.
(b) Building from the bottom up.
(c) From completely new research.
(d) From old research and studies.

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. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?
(a) Gilbert Zweier.
(b) Gerry Zelwegger.
(c) George Zumba.
(d) Gordon Zubord.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Blue blood.
(b) Red blood.
(c) White blood.
(d) Poisoned blood.

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

12. In 1973, Sidney Farber died from what?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Cardiac arrest.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Colon cancer.

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

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

15. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.
(a) One year.
(b) Two year.
(c) Nine month.
(d) Six month.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

3. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

4. 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.

5. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

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