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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. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1941.

2. What type of cancer had John Moore developed at the age of thirty-one?
(a) Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
(b) Burkitt Lymphoma.
(c) Hairy-cell leukemia.
(d) Basal Cell Carcinoma.

3. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?
(a) Cliff.
(b) Joe.
(c) Cootie.
(d) Tommy.

4. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?
(a) 307.
(b) 79.
(c) 198.
(d) 269.

5. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?
(a) Alexis Carrel.
(b) Jonas Salk.
(c) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(d) Sir Isaac Newton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?

3. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?

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. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?

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