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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. Alexis Carrel died while he was awaiting trial for what crime?
(a) Fraud and negligence.
(b) Collaborating with the Nazis.
(c) Arson.
(d) Impersonating a medical professional.

2. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1988.

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

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

5. Who was David and Henrietta's cousin that convinced David to look for work in the steel industry in Baltimore in 1941?
(a) Joseph Lacks.
(b) Fred Garret.
(c) Johnny Pleasant.
(d) Tommy Lacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Harvard anesthesiologist that published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Chester Southam's cancer research was just one of hundreds of similarly unethical cases?

2. When was the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed in the United States?

3. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?

4. The author states in the book that by the time Keenan Kester Cofield contacted the Lacks family, he was already banned from filing lawsuits in how many countries?

5. Who was the judge that oversaw John Moore's initial case against UCLA?

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