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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. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.
(b) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(c) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(d) A student who found a lump in his side.

2. VAMP is a _________ drug combination that was proposed for cancer treatment. Frei, Freireich and Skipper believed that the combination would prove to be the answer they were looking for, yet when Frei proposed it to Zubrod, the man was stunned.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. In 1968, there were noteworthy successes where?
(a) In Knoxville and St. Louis.
(b) In Bethesda and Memphis.
(c) In Toledo and Columbus.
(d) In Indianapolis and Chicago.

4. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(b) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
(c) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(d) Hodgkin's lymphoma.

5. Cancer returned to the media spotlight in every way, particularly through _______________.
(a) Books.
(b) Movies.
(c) Magazines.
(d) Television.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Orman had cancer where?

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

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

5. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

(see the answer key)

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