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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 28 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was the president of the National Foundation for Cancer Research in 2001?
(a) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(b) William Scherer.
(c) Walter Nelson-Rees.
(d) Franklin Salisbury, Jr.

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?
(a) 84.
(b) 95.
(c) 77.
(d) 92.

4. What type of cancer had John Moore developed at the age of thirty-one?
(a) Burkitt Lymphoma.
(b) Hairy-cell leukemia.
(c) Basal Cell Carcinoma.
(d) Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

5. 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?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) August 20, 1947.
(c) January 29, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?

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

3. Rebecca Skloot states in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 24 that a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database shows how many patents involving HeLa cells?

4. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?

5. What discovery did the researchers make after sending HeLa cells into space in the 1960s?

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