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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 23 - 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?
(a) Johnny Pleasant.
(b) William Lacks.
(c) David Lacks.
(d) Tommy Lacks.

2. What date was inscribed to indicate when Henrietta's mother died on her tombstone?
(a) August 1, 1920.
(b) January 17, 1912.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) October 28, 1924.

3. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Harvard School of Medicine.
(b) UCLA School of Medicine.
(c) Morehouse School of Medicine.
(d) Sewanee School of Medicine.

4. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Necromancy.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) Ebonics.
(d) Virology.

5. What was the name of Deborah Lacks's first child?
(a) Alfred Carter.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Fred Garret.
(d) Henry Harris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?

2. The first time that live human cells were ever shipped via the U.S. Postal Service was when George Gey mailed HeLa cells to whom?

3. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?

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

5. 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?

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