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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 33 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?
(a) Man, the Unknown.
(b) An Error of Cells.
(c) Lights Out.
(d) Man and Superman.

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

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

4. What was the population at the asylum of Crownsville Hospital when Elsie died in 1955?
(a) 3,200.
(b) 2,700.
(c) 956.
(d) 1,230.

5. What was the central reason that the HeLa factory was developed?
(a) To fight epilepsy.
(b) To fight syphilis.
(c) To fight cancer.
(d) To fight polio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Deborah Lacks when she became pregnant with her first child?

2. How many years in prison did Zakariyya serve of his sentence before he was released for his second-degree murder conviction?

3. What comparison did the researcher at Johns Hopkins make for a person's cells and their rights to a portion of the profits for those cells in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?

4. Alexis Carrel died while he was awaiting trial for what crime?

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

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