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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 30%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 45%

3. According to Bennett the blood had spoiled. Bennett referred to this as a ___________ of blood.
(a) Superarray.
(b) Supperannuation.
(c) Suppuration.
(d) Suppurative.

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

5. One patient commented that she was tired of the ________________.
(a) Rude oncologist.
(b) Happy oncologist.
(c) Smiling oncologist.
(d) Dumb oncologist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By the time Farber began his work in 1947, what had happened to the public outcry against cancer?

3. This place was a space marked indelibly in the history of what?

4. Mukherjee explains that biology is based on how many fundamental tenets?

5. Doctors began to experiment with using __________ drug combinations to combat cancer cells.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the New York Times letter to Richard Nixon. How could this tactic be useful today?

2. How was the chemotherapy ward a battle ground in the 1970s?

3. Describe Farber's society. How was it successful?

4. Why was Farber fortunate to have lived in the right time, and also died at the right time?

5. How did Virchow stumble upon cancer?

6. What were the two major arguments regarding current cancer treatments? Why?

7. How is the 21st anniversary of the Jimmy Fund significant?

8. On what two fundamental tenets is biology based? Explain these tenets.

9. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

10. Who is Ben Orman? How is he significant to the study of cancer?

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