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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. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?
(a) January 29, 1951.
(b) February 5, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) October 4, 1951.

2. What did the researcher at Johns Hopkins give to Deborah as she departed in the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) His cell phone number.
(b) A vial of HeLa cells.
(c) A book about HeLa cells.
(d) An autographed picture.

3. Where did Roland Pattillo grow up?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

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

5. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?
(a) Man and Superman.
(b) Lights Out.
(c) An Error of Cells.
(d) Man, the Unknown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chester Southam advertise for medical research volunteers in May of 1956?

2. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?

3. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?

4. Where did Rebecca Skloot travel to in order to meet David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

5. How old was Deborah Lacks when she became pregnant with her first child?

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