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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. Minot's research pertained mostly to ________________ anemia.
(a) Sickle cell.
(b) Iron deficiency.
(c) Pernicious.
(d) Vitamin deficiency.

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

3. Some doctors believed that any form of this type of surgery yielded what?
(a) No benefits.
(b) Some benefits.
(c) Few benefits.
(d) Many benefits.

4. 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.

5. 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) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.

2. How did therapies need to be developed?

3. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?

4. Farber was fortunate to have lived in the right time, but he was perhaps even more fortunate for what reason?

5. What is counting?

(see the answer key)

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