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

2. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?
(a) Very radical surgery.
(b) Hyperradical surgery.
(c) Ultraradical surgery.
(d) Hyporadical sugery.

3. Farber was determined to make people understand what?
(a) The ways to prevent cancer.
(b) The fear that cancer causes.
(c) The weakness of cancer.
(d) The nature and devastating effects of cancer.

4. Who is Ben Orman?
(a) A doctor who found a lump in his leg.
(b) An artist who found a lump in his arm.
(c) A student who found a lump in his side.
(d) An athlete who found a lump in his neck.

5. What does Cole say this theorist lacked?
(a) The case studies to support his claims.
(b) The intelligence to achieve his goals and to execute the procedure correctly.
(c) The research to back up his claims.
(d) The right tools to achieve his goals and to execute the procedure correctly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mukherjee believe it is fortunate that Farber had not asked any of the pediatricians about creating an anti-leukemic drug?

2. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.

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

4. In the shadow of Albert's death, Mary Lasker's cancer campaign took on a _______________ tone.

5. Orman had cancer where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Choose a period of history that is significant to cancer research. How is this significant?

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

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

5. Why did Sidney Farber change professions? How might this have been a somewhat difficult adjustment?

6. How was this letter to Richard Nixon significant at the time?

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

8. Why did breast cancer clinical trials last ten years? How could these trials have been run better?

9. What are the two schools of thought regarding surgery? Why was this such a problem?

10. What important drugs came out in the 1940s and 1950s? How are these important to us today?

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