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

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

3. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.
(a) Laryngeal Cancer.
(b) Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.
(c) Leukemias.
(d) Lymphomas.

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

5. The U.S. Public Health Service is approached regarding what?
(a) A warning on cigarettes.
(b) A ban on cigarettes.
(c) An increase in cigarette sales.
(d) A decrease in cigarette sales.

Short Answer Questions

1. A battle began between two schools of thought. What are these schools of thought?

2. In _________ John Bennett, a Scottish physician, had described the case of a 28-year-old slate layer who complained of a mysterious swelling in his spleen.

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. 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. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

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