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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. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?
(a) 8 pints.
(b) 5 pints.
(c) 10 pints.
(d) 2 pints.

2. When was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) October 4, 1925.
(b) August 1, 1920.
(c) January 17, 1919.
(d) April 10, 1941.

3. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Polio.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Epilepsy.

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

5. When was the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed in the United States?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2005.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What image did Mary Kubicek describe to the author as having instilled in her the realization that Henrietta Lacks was "a real person" in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?

3. When was the Human Genome Project begun?

4. What was the central reason that the HeLa factory was developed?

5. Who was the cancer researcher at UCLA that removed John Moore's spleen?

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