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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. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.
(a) Simple surgery.
(b) Grand surgery.
(c) Major surgery.
(d) Radical surgery.

2. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.
(a) 1845.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1905.

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

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) One cell.
(c) A large group of cells.
(d) Other cells.

5. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.
(a) One year.
(b) Nine month.
(c) Six month.
(d) Two year.

Short Answer 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.

2. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.

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

4. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?

5. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. On what two fundamental tenets is biology based? Explain these tenets.

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

7. What is VAMP? What about this might have surprised Zubrod?

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

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

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

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