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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. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(b) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(c) Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(d) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

2. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Folic acid.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Vitamin D.

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

4. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Caesar Augustus.
(b) Imhotep.
(c) Genghis Khan.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

2. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

3. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.

4. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.

5. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the 21st anniversary of the Jimmy Fund significant?

3. What did Moya Cole think of Halsted's theories? Why?

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

5. Why was Farber fortunate to have lived in the right time, and also died at the right time?

6. Describe the drug and cancer lists of Canellas and Frei. How is this significant?

7. What is meant by counting? Why does this matter?

8. Why was John Bennett wrong?

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

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

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