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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Death – Chapters 12 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?
(a) January 17, 1912.
(b) August 1, 1920.
(c) January 29, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1926.

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

3. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?
(a) The 1880s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1940s.

4. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Eugenics.
(b) Ebonics.
(c) Necromancy.
(d) Virology.

5. What was listed as the official cause of Henrietta Lacks's death?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Grand mal seizure.
(c) Terminal uremia.
(d) Stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?

2. 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?

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

4. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?

5. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?

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