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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Farber administered ______________ and was in wonder as Robert's disease went into remission almost immediately.
(a) Aminopterin.
(b) Aminoglycosides.
(c) Aminata.
(d) Aminophylline.

4. 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.
(a) 1905.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1835.

5. The radical mastectomy needed to be tested against what?
(a) The simple mastectomy.
(b) The simply mastectomy and lumpectomy plus radiation.
(c) The lumpectomy plus radiation.
(d) The lumpectomy.

6. Mukherjee was one of ____________ cancer fellows at the hospital involved in an immersive training program. Mukherjee describes the immersive training program as being so intensive that nothing outside of the hospital exists for the trainees. Residents eat, sleep and breathe medicine.
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty-seven.
(d) Fourteen.

7. "The Emperor of all Maladies" begins with the tale of Carla Reed, a _______ year old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, MA.
(a) 55.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 30.

8. Farber knew that in order to launch a national attack on cancer he would have to form what?
(a) A political party.
(b) A society.
(c) A scientific organization.
(d) A government committee.

9. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1963.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1973.

10. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Report.
(b) Institute.
(c) Research.
(d) Gauntlet.

11. Although Farber was the chief pathologist at Children's Hospital, how had he become tired of his work?
(a) He worked with the dead and never treated a live patient.
(b) He worked with the dead and was tired of the medical field.
(c) He worked with only older children and wanted to spend more time studying cancer in younger children.
(d) He was tired of working with young children.

12. Mukherjee met with Carla. They discussed the survival rate of leukemia. At one time, there was almost no chance that Carla could have been able to survive the onset of the leukemia. With the advent of modern medicine and new treatments, Carla had a ______ chance of surviving the disease.
(a) 15%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 45%
(d) 30%.

13. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.
(a) General.
(b) Local.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Community.

14. Every battle needs its iconic battleground, and one physical place epitomized the cancer wars of the late _________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

15. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. The researchers met with Howard Skipper, a "_______________" who had been injecting rodents with leukemic cells.

2. In 1969, the New York Times published an open letter to ___________________ begging him to support cancer research.

3. The year of his death, 1972, marked what?

4. Farber became fascinated with the links between bone marrow, vitamins and normal blood. Farber decided to use _____________ to treat children with leukemia.

5. Farber was determined to make people understand what?

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