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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 28 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What date was inscribed to indicate when Henrietta's mother died on her tombstone?
(a) October 28, 1924.
(b) April 10, 1941.
(c) August 1, 1920.
(d) January 17, 1912.

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

3. What nickname did Deborah Lacks have within her family?
(a) Dottie.
(b) Dale.
(c) Liz.
(d) Debbie.

4. When did the U.S.-led international war tribunal at Nuremberg sentence seven Nazi doctors to death for conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) August 20, 1947.
(c) January 29, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

5. What disease nearly killed Henrietta's youngest son Joe not long after her death?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Polio.
(d) Tuberculosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the preacher that led Rebecca Skloot to Speed's Grocery in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

2. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?

3. What gift did Deborah give to Zakariyya when she took Rebecca to meet him in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 30?

4. On what date did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?

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