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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Some scientists began to wonder what about cancer?
(a) If there was a carrier.
(b) If it was communicable.
(c) If only certain types of people could get it.
(d) If it was hereditary.

3. For whom is the Pap smear named?
(a) Papanoumous.
(b) Papua.
(c) Papanicolaou.
(d) Papalous.

4. The Ministry asked the Medical Research Council to arrange a conference of experts to study the rise of lung cancer. How were the results?
(a) Somewhat conclusive.
(b) Mixed and not even remotely conclusive.
(c) Conclusive.
(d) Very conclusive.

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.
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1961 the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the __________________________ wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy, asking for help in fighting cancer.

2. _____________, an outsider in the community, was working with patients with a rare form of leukemia - choriocarcinoma - which involves the placenta in a pregnant woman.

3. Orman was diagnosed with what?

4. By 1953, the average annual consumption of cigarettes had reached ________________ per person.

5. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?

(see the answer key)

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