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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. Who was the Harvard anesthesiologist that published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Chester Southam's cancer research was just one of hundreds of similarly unethical cases?
(a) Michael Rogers.
(b) Henry Beecher.
(c) Harry Eagle.
(d) Emanuel Mandel.

2. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?
(a) Almost 60.
(b) Almost 50.
(c) Almost 40.
(d) Almost 30.

3. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?
(a) Harry Eagle.
(b) Ronald H. Berg.
(c) William Scherer.
(d) Emanuel Mandel.

4. On what date did Rebecca Skloot finally meet face-to-face with Deborah Lacks for the first time?
(a) October 11, 1996.
(b) August 1, 2001.
(c) July 9, 2000.
(d) January 3, 2002.

5. How old was Alexis Carrel when he invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together?
(a) 45.
(b) 22.
(c) 39.
(d) 62.

Short Answer Questions

1. What discovery did the researchers make after sending HeLa cells into space in the 1960s?

2. How many people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?

3. When did Joe Lacks turn himself into the police for the murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?

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

5. What color were the HeLa cells tinted that Deborah observed at Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?

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