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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 23 - 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the press officer at the NFIP that wrote to George Gey in 1953 to say that he intended to write a more detailed article about Henrietta Lacks once her name was revealed in the press?
(a) William Scherer.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Charles Bynum.
(d) Ronald H. Berg.

2. How old was Deborah Lacks when she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.

3. When was the Human Genome Project declared complete?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2003.

4. What sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) 15 years in prison.
(b) 30 years in prison.
(c) 10 years in prison.
(d) 5 years in prison.

5. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?

2. Who were the two British scientists that fused HeLa cells with mouse cells, creating the first human-animal hybrids?

3. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?

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?

5. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?

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