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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: An Impatient War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) Community.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Local.
(d) General.

2. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Create laws against cancer research.
(b) Campaign against Farber.
(c) Lobby against cancer research.
(d) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.

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

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

5. The first VAMP trial was launched in ___________. The results were abysmal. Refinements showed progress and even success. However, the cost was quite high for the young patients.
(a) 1971.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ben Orman?

2. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.

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

4. 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.

5. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.

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