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

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

3. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Laryngeal Cancer.
(b) Leukemias.
(c) Lymphomas.
(d) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.

4. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?
(a) Blood had no reason to transform itself into anything.
(b) Blood cells could not multiply.
(c) Red blood cells could not become white blood cells.
(d) Blood was not capable of transforming itself into anything.

5. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
(a) A great.
(b) A small.
(c) A limited.
(d) An infinite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orman was diagnosed with what?

2. 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.

3. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

4. Who is Ben Orman?

5. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.

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