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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Death – Chapters 17 - 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?
(a) Sedentary and biological.
(b) Radiant and specialized.
(c) Internal and external.
(d) Invasive and noninvasive.

2. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?
(a) The Harvard School of Medicine Center for Cancer Research.
(b) The Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Research.
(c) Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
(d) The MIT Center for Cancer Research.

3. How many chromosomes are contained in a human cell?
(a) 52.
(b) 42.
(c) 46.
(d) 36.

4. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?
(a) 307.
(b) 269.
(c) 198.
(d) 79.

5. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?
(a) Harry Eagle.
(b) Ronald H. Berg.
(c) Emanuel Mandel.
(d) William Scherer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many points compose the code of ethics known as the Nuremberg Code?

2. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?

3. How old was Alexis Carrel when he invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together?

4. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?

5. Who was the press officer at the NFIP that wrote to George Gey in 1953 to say that he intended to write a more detailed article about Henrietta Lacks once her name was revealed in the press?

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