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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 just begun.
(c) It had grown.
(d) It had all but silenced.

4. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) An infinite.
(b) A great.
(c) A small.
(d) A limited.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.

2. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.

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

4. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?

5. How did therapies need to be developed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Farber's society. How was it successful?

2. How was this letter to Richard Nixon significant at the time?

3. What are the two schools of thought regarding surgery? Why was this such a problem?

4. What is meant by the "smiling oncologist?"

5. Why did breast cancer clinical trials last ten years? How could these trials have been run better?

6. Describe Bennett's patient. How was John Bennett's diagnosis logical?

7. What were the two major arguments regarding current cancer treatments? Why?

8. How was the chemotherapy ward a battle ground in the 1970s?

9. Who is Ben Orman? How is he significant to the study of cancer?

10. What did FDR do to fight cancer? What caused support of cancer research to wane? Why?

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