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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Will You Turn Me out If I Can't Get Better?.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.
(a) Maple syrup.
(b) Folic acid.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) Vitamin D.
2. Eventually, a panel was formed to investigate the possibility of creating what focused on battling cancer?
(a) A public hospital.
(b) A private organization.
(c) A panel of scientists and doctors.
(d) A government agency.
3. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Lymphomas.
(b) Leukemias.
(c) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(d) Laryngeal Cancer.
4. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?
(a) Building from the top down.
(b) Building from the bottom up.
(c) From old research and studies.
(d) From completely new research.
5. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) National Cancer Institute.
(b) National Cancer Center.
(c) American Cancer Institute.
(d) American Cancer Society.
Short Answer Questions
1. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.
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. Mukherjee updates Carla Reed's condition. What had happened so far?
4. One morning, Carla awoke with a bad headache which she described as __________________.The pains and other symptoms waxed and waned. Although Carla had seen a doctor, there was no solid diagnosis. Eventually, it was determined that Carla had leukemia.
5. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.
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