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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. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?
(a) 307.
(b) 198.
(c) 79.
(d) 269.

2. 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?
(a) No Exit.
(b) Lights Out.
(c) Lost Souls.
(d) Serendipity.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?

3. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?

4. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?

5. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?

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