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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue; Part 1: A Suppuration of Blood.

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Report.
(b) Institute.
(c) Gauntlet.
(d) Research.

2. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?
(a) Oxyphil cells.
(b) Red blood cells.
(c) Epithelial cells.
(d) White blood cells.

3. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.
(a) Paris.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

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

5. 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) 75%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 45%
(d) 30%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.

2. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

3. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?

4. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

5. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

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