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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 33 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was the Washington Post article dated that was titled "Overcrowded Hospital 'Loses' Curable Patients" and given to Rebecca to read at Crownville Hospital Center?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1955.

4. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) April 10, 1941.
(c) January 29, 1951.
(d) October 4, 1951.

5. When was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) August 1, 1920.
(b) January 17, 1919.
(c) October 4, 1925.
(d) April 10, 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. As of the book's publication in 2009, over how many scientific articles had been published about research done on HeLa?

2. Who was Henrietta's grandfather that raised her after her mother died?

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

4. Where did Roland Pattillo grow up?

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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