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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. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?
(a) Sedentary and biological.
(b) Radiant and specialized.
(c) Invasive and noninvasive.
(d) Internal and external.

2. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1912.

3. 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. Howard Jones.
(b) Dr. Roland Pattillo.
(c) Dr. William Scherer.
(d) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.

4. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?
(a) Cliff.
(b) Cootie.
(c) Galen.
(d) Joe.

5. What year was it when a group of researchers at the National Institutes of Health had proven the possibility of immortal cells using mouse cells?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?

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

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

4. What researcher at the NIH used HeLa cells to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready to use?

5. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?

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