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

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

3. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

4. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
(a) More dejected.
(b) More positive.
(c) Defeated.
(d) More urgent and insistent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

2. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.

3. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.

4. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

5. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What symptoms led to Carla Reed learning she had leukemia?

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

6. Why was John Bennett wrong?

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

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

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

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

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