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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. How did therapies need to be developed?
(a) From the top down.
(b) From old research and studies.
(c) From completely new research.
(d) From the bottom up.

2. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Surgery.

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

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

5. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) National Cancer Institute.
(b) American Cancer Institute.
(c) American Cancer Society.
(d) National Cancer Center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?

2. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?

3. __________ trial and error continued.

4. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Choose a period of history that is significant to cancer research. How is this significant?

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

4. Describe Min Chiu Li's work. Why did others believe further treatment was not necessary?

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

6. What important drugs came out in the 1940s and 1950s? How are these important to us today?

7. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

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

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

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

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