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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Death – Chapters 12 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 as "an essential part of science"?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Replication.
(c) Division.
(d) Delusion.

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

3. What image did Mary Kubicek describe to the author as having instilled in her the realization that Henrietta Lacks was "a real person" in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?
(a) Smeared lipstick.
(b) Chipped red toenail polish.
(c) A pearl-encased locket.
(d) Henrietta's wedding ring.

4. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Afghanistan War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) World War II.

5. What was the central reason that the HeLa factory was developed?
(a) To fight epilepsy.
(b) To fight polio.
(c) To fight syphilis.
(d) To fight cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?

2. What year was it when a group of researchers at the National Institutes of Health had proven the possibility of immortal cells using mouse cells?

3. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?

4. What date was inscribed to indicate when Henrietta's mother died on her tombstone?

5. The author says in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 that George Gey took HeLa cells with him to the Far East in 1953 in order to study what disease?

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