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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 23 - 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many points compose the code of ethics known as the Nuremberg Code?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

2. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Ethel.
(c) Bobbette.
(d) Margaret.

3. What disease nearly killed Henrietta's youngest son Joe not long after her death?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Polio.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. What discovery did the researchers make after sending HeLa cells into space in the 1960s?
(a) The cancer cells died in space.
(b) The cancer cells transformed into noncancerous cells in space.
(c) The cancer cells exploded in space.
(d) The cancer cells began dividing more quickly with each trip into space.

5. What was the name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?
(a) The Way of All Flesh.
(b) Man, the Unknown.
(c) An Error of Cells.
(d) HeLa: Woman Behind the Mask.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?

2. When did the U.S.-led international war tribunal at Nuremberg sentence seven Nazi doctors to death for conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent?

3. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?

4. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?

5. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?

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