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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Death – Chapters 17 - 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Bobbette.
(d) Ethel.

3. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Polio.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. 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) 92.
(c) 95.
(d) 84.

5. What did Joe Lacks change his name to after he converted to Islam in prison?
(a) Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(b) Johnny Pleasant.
(c) Andrew Robertson.
(d) Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?

2. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?

3. Who was David and Henrietta's cousin that convinced David to look for work in the steel industry in Baltimore in 1941?

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

5. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?

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