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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. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) Half.
(b) One tenth.
(c) One fourth.
(d) One third.

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

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

4. 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) Twenty-seven.
(b) Seven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

5. Mary Woodward Lasker and her husband Albert Lasker began to do what?
(a) Campaign against Farber.
(b) Lobby against cancer research.
(c) Create laws against cancer research.
(d) Campaign for funds to fight cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.

2. What is MOPP?

3. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, learned about Carla after she had checked into Massachusetts ______________ Hospital.

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

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

1. How could this battle regarding surgery be ended?

2. What symptoms led to Carla Reed learning she had leukemia?

3. What were the problems with VAMP? How might these be corrected?

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

5. How does chemotherapy reverse Paracelsus' belief about poison and drugs?

6. What is meant by counting? Why does this matter?

7. Describe Min Chiu Li's work. Why did others believe further treatment was not necessary?

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

9. What did Moya Cole think of Halsted's theories? Why?

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

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