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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. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Virology.
(b) Necromancy.
(c) Eugenics.
(d) Ebonics.

2. Alexis Carrel died while he was awaiting trial for what crime?
(a) Impersonating a medical professional.
(b) Fraud and negligence.
(c) Collaborating with the Nazis.
(d) Arson.

3. What was the name of the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Dr. Rogers.
(b) Dr. Gey.
(c) Dr. Wilbur.
(d) Dr. Jones.

4. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?
(a) Walter and Jimmy.
(b) Tommy and David.
(c) Johnny and Cootie.
(d) Fred and Cliff.

5. 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) Emanuel Mandel.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Henry Beecher.
(d) Michael Rogers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Henrietta Lacks's children did not attend her funeral or know she'd died, according to the author in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?

2. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?

3. Who was the director of "Negro Activities" for the Tuskegee Institute when the HeLa Distribution Center was developed?

4. When was Henrietta Lacks born?

5. What was Henrietta Lacks's name at birth?

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