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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 people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?
(a) About 300 people.
(b) About 200 people.
(c) Over 600 people.
(d) Over 800 people.

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

3. Of whom did Zakariyya say "Livin' with that abusive crazy woman was worse than livin' in prison" in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 30?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Ethel.
(c) Sadie.
(d) Margaret.

4. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?
(a) The 1940s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1880s.

5. What did Joe Lacks change his name to after he converted to Islam in prison?
(a) Johnny Pleasant.
(b) Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(c) Andrew Robertson.
(d) Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman.

Short Answer Questions

1. The researcher at Johns Hopkins that showed Deborah her mother's cells explained to her that Henrietta's cancer developed due to what virus?

2. Who came with Deborah to Johns Hopkins to see Henrietta Lacks's cells?

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?

4. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?

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