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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. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Morehouse School of Medicine.
(b) UCLA School of Medicine.
(c) Harvard School of Medicine.
(d) Sewanee School of Medicine.

2. What does "ATCC" stand for in reference to the federal cell bank established by Lewis Coriell and others?
(a) Arterial Tissue and Culture Collective.
(b) American Technical Control Center.
(c) The American Type Culture Collection.
(d) American Technological Culture Containment.

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?
(a) 92.
(b) 77.
(c) 84.
(d) 95.

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

5. What was Henrietta Lacks's name at birth?
(a) Helen Lane.
(b) Henrietta Pleasant.
(c) Wilma Anderson.
(d) Loretta Pleasant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?

2. Who was the preacher that led Rebecca Skloot to Speed's Grocery in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

3. The first time that live human cells were ever shipped via the U.S. Postal Service was when George Gey mailed HeLa cells to whom?

4. What disease nearly killed Henrietta's youngest son Joe not long after her death?

5. How old was Deborah Lacks when the researchers from Johns Hopkins came to draw blood for DNA analysis of Henrietta's husband and children?

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