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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. What was the goal of the oncologist at this time?
(a) To study how cancer destroys cells.
(b) To earn a large paycheck.
(c) To fight the cancer.
(d) To compete with other oncologists.

2. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
(a) That such an organization would never work.
(b) That such a hospital is not cost-effective.
(c) That such a panel should not be formed.
(d) That such an agency should be formed.

3. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.
(a) More urgent and insistent.
(b) More dejected.
(c) More positive.
(d) Defeated.

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.
(a) Numbness.
(b) A dull ache.
(c) A dizzy spell.
(d) Shooting pain.

5. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Mukherjee's.
(b) Howard's.
(c) Halsted's.
(d) Farber's.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Stewart Halsted is known as the father of what?

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

3. 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?

4. How did therapies need to be developed?

5. What was this one physical place?

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