The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Siddhartha Mukherjee
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How did therapies need to be developed?
(a) From the bottom up.
(b) From the top down.
(c) From old research and studies.
(d) From completely new research.

2. 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) Other cells.
(c) A large group of cells.
(d) Nothing.

3. One woman with choriocarcinoma was treated with _____________ and recovered.
(a) Chemotherapy.
(b) Folic acid.
(c) Homeopathic remedies.
(d) Antifolates.

4. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?
(a) Radiology.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Lymphoma.
(d) Radical surgery.

5. The only way to test these different beliefs about Halstedian theory was to do what?
(a) Run a controlled clinical trial.
(b) Study previous research.
(c) Study it in animals.
(d) Run several controlled clinical trials.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who worked to keep cancer research out of trouble, and to do so he developed a consortium to keep doctors, scientists and health facilities from working at cross purposes?

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

3. Who is Ben Orman?

4. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

5. MOPP caused what?

(see the answer key)

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