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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. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?
(a) Eight.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
(a) Carla was cured.
(b) Carla had passed away.
(c) Carla was in remission.
(d) Carla's cancer had returned.

3. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) Half.
(b) One third.
(c) One tenth.
(d) One fourth.

4. MOPP caused what?
(a) Severe nausea plus untold long term effects.
(b) Sterility.
(c) Weight loss.
(d) Hair loss and weight gain.

5. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Folic acid.
(d) Vitamin D.

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. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?

3. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.

4. One tenet is that all bodies are made up of cells. A second tenet is that cells arise only from what?

5. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?

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