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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 did the researcher at Johns Hopkins give to Deborah as she departed in the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) His cell phone number.
(b) A vial of HeLa cells.
(c) An autographed picture.
(d) A book about HeLa cells.

2. Where was Barbara Wyche working as a sociologist when she wrote to Congress demanding recognition for Henrietta Lacks's contribution to science?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Morgan State University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Louisiana State University.

3. On what date did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) October 4, 1969.
(b) January 29, 1972.
(c) September 15, 1970.
(d) October 4, 1951.

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

5. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?

2. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?

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

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