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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Prevention Is the Cure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was this one physical place?
(a) The cancer ward.
(b) The radiation ward.
(c) The surgery ward.
(d) The chemotherapy ward.

2. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?
(a) It had lessened somewhat.
(b) It had all but silenced.
(c) It had grown.
(d) It had just begun.

3. _____________________ published a report in 1956 that delineated the connection between tobacco and lung cancer.
(a) Richard Doll and Bradford Hill.
(b) Rich Dell and Brian Henry.
(c) Roger Denver and Brady Hall.
(d) Rory Delmonico and Bradley Harold.

4. This time a significant link was found. Lobbies began to appear to do what?
(a) Ban cigarette sales altogether.
(b) Destroy the cigarette companies.
(c) Ban smoking in public places.
(d) Put filters on cigarettes and to ban TV ads for the product.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Freireich was obsessed with continuing clinical trials. The combinations of drugs provided ______________ number of combinations.

2. In 1963, three men visited Oscar Auerbach. Why?

3. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?

4. Robert would eventually die but he and many other patients had survived past the ______________ period. At the time, this was an eternity.

5. The use of MOPP continued to be used in the treatment of what?

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