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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Life - Chapters 6 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1798.

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

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

4. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?
(a) Fred Garret.
(b) Michael Rogers.
(c) Roland Pattillo.
(d) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.

5. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?
(a) Cootie.
(b) Cliff.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What radio horror show in the 1930s related the fictional story of a Dr. Alberts who created an immortal chicken heart that overcame the earth?

2. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?

3. 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?

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

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

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