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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did therapies need to be developed?
(a) From completely new research.
(b) From the bottom up.
(c) From the top down.
(d) From old research and studies.

3. _________________ began to resurrect the concept of counting.
(a) Yale James Call.
(b) Columbia Jerome Cairney.
(c) Harvard John Cairns.
(d) Brown Jerry Calloway.

4. Farber celebrated the successes as well as the ________ anniversary of the Jimmy Fund.
(a) 20th.
(b) 21st.
(c) 10th.
(d) 30th.

5. MOPP caused what?
(a) Sterility.
(b) Weight loss.
(c) Severe nausea plus untold long term effects.
(d) Hair loss and weight gain.

6. What does Cole say about the results of many surgeries?
(a) They have harmful, disfiguring results.
(b) They are successful.
(c) They are traumatic.
(d) They have unusual results.

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

8. Orman was diagnosed with what?
(a) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(b) Kaposi Sarcoma.
(c) Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(d) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

9. 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) 1845.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1885.

10. Mukherjee begins to discuss the age of cancer, referring to the ancient discoveries of ___________ in 2625 B.C.
(a) Genghis Khan.
(b) Imhotep.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Caesar Augustus.

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

12. Dissenting voices began to be heard. How many major arguments existed?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

13. The first official naming of cancer took place around 400 B.C. Hippocrates referred to it as "karkinos," the Greek word for _________.
(a) Tumor.
(b) Crab.
(c) Snake.
(d) Shark.

14. In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the ________________ Act.
(a) National Cancer Center.
(b) American Cancer Society.
(c) National Cancer Institute.
(d) American Cancer Institute.

15. _________ surgery was accelerated to superradical surgery.
(a) Simple surgery.
(b) Major surgery.
(c) Grand surgery.
(d) Radical surgery.

Short Answer Questions

1. The parcel Farber was expecting contained aminopterin, a __________ crystalline chemical that Farber hoped could be used in deterring the growth of childhood leukemia.

2. __________ trial and error continued.

3. Orman had cancer where?

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

5. What was the most common practice regarding the development of therapies?

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