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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. The author says in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 that George Gey took HeLa cells with him to the Far East in 1953 in order to study what disease?
(a) Hemorrhagic fever.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) Gonorrhea.

2. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?
(a) Sadie and Margaret.
(b) Tommy and Sarah.
(c) Joe and Fred.
(d) Cliff and Cootie.

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

4. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) October 4, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) January 29, 1951.

5. Who was the cancer researcher at UCLA that removed John Moore's spleen?
(a) Henry Beecher.
(b) Victor McKusick.
(c) David Golde.
(d) Emanuel Mandel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Henrietta live with her grandfather growing up after her mother died?

3. 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?

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

5. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?

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