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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. Orman had cancer where?
(a) In his spleen.
(b) In his tibia.
(c) In his lymph nodes.
(d) In his bicep.

2. Virchow began to notice uncontrolled growth of cells. Virchow referred to this as _____________ or distorted growth.
(a) Physioplasia.
(b) Neoplasia.
(c) Pseudoplasia.
(d) Alloplasia.

3. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.
(a) Cat doctor.
(b) Mouse doctor.
(c) People's doctor.
(d) Children's doctor.

4. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.
(a) 15%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 45%
(d) 75%.

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) Two year.
(c) Six month.
(d) Nine month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Henry Kaplan?

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

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

4. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

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