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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 is described in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 as "an essential part of science"?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Replication.
(c) Division.
(d) Incongruity.

2. When did Joe Lacks turn himself into the police for the murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) August 20, 1972.
(c) September 29, 1970.
(d) October 4, 1969.

3. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Bobbette.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Ethel.

4. Where was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) Roanoke, Virginia.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Plainfield, New Jersey.

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?
(a) 42.
(b) 33.
(c) 29.
(d) 36.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?

2. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?

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

4. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?

5. When were HeLa cells fused with mouse cells to create the first animal-human hybrid cells?

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