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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Research.
(b) Institute.
(c) Report.
(d) Gauntlet.

2. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?
(a) Vincent DeVito.
(b) Vincent DeVane.
(c) Vincent DeVita.
(d) Vincent DeVeau.

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

4. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?
(a) The concept of chemical remedies and homeopathic remedies.
(b) The concept of surgery and non-surgery.
(c) The concept of radical surgery and simple surgery.
(d) The concept of surgery and homeopathic remedies.

5. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Mukherjee's.
(b) Halsted's.
(c) Farber's.
(d) Howard's.

6. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Magazines.
(b) Movies.
(c) Television.
(d) Books.

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

8. What is MOPP?
(a) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(b) A combination chemotherapy regimen.
(c) A tool used to clean the floor.
(d) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.

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

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

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

12. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.
(b) He had no bedside manner.
(c) He enjoyed making his patients sick.
(d) He was not well-educated.

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

14. Orman had cancer where?
(a) In his tibia.
(b) In his bicep.
(c) In his spleen.
(d) In his lymph nodes.

15. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Shark.
(b) Crab.
(c) Tumor.
(d) Snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hyperplasia was what?

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

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

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.

5. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.

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