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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 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) 1898.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1963.

2. How old was Dr. Howard Jones in 2009 when The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks went to press?
(a) 102.
(b) 89.
(c) 99.
(d) 85.

3. 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) Necromancy.
(c) Virology.
(d) Ebonics.

4. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Richard Nixon.

5. 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?
(a) He compared cells to sand.
(b) He compared cells to food.
(c) He compared cells to water.
(d) He compared cells to oil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lawrence when he an Bobbette moved in together?

2. On what date did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?

3. What did the researcher at Johns Hopkins give to Deborah as she departed in the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?

4. How old was Alexis Carrel when he invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together?

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

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