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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. What did the bathroom graffiti in the medical school restroom say that first inspired Michael Rogers to learn about HeLa cells and their background?
(a) The Way of HeLa!
(b) Who is HeLa?
(c) Helen Lane Lives!
(d) I am HeLa!

2. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1925.

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

4. When was the Human Genome Project declared complete?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2000.

5. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?
(a) Fred Garret.
(b) Michael Rogers.
(c) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(d) Roland Pattillo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Henrietta Lacks born?

2. What was the name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?

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

4. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?

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

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