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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. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1977.

2. Who was the gynecologist that examined Henrietta Lacks when she first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to have the knot in her womb seen?
(a) Dr. William Scherer.
(b) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(c) Dr. Roland Pattillo.
(d) Dr. Howard Jones.

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

4. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?
(a) Emanuel Mandel.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) William Scherer.
(d) Ronald H. Berg.

5. What was the name of Deborah Lacks's first child?
(a) Fred Garret.
(b) Henry Harris.
(c) Harry Eagle.
(d) Alfred Carter.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?

2. Where did Rebecca Skloot travel to in order to meet David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

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

4. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?

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

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