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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. When was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) August 1, 1920.
(b) January 17, 1919.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) October 4, 1925.

2. What image did Mary Kubicek describe to the author as having instilled in her the realization that Henrietta Lacks was "a real person" in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?
(a) Smeared lipstick.
(b) Chipped red toenail polish.
(c) A pearl-encased locket.
(d) Henrietta's wedding ring.

3. What was the nickname of Henrietta's cousin that tried to kill himself when he found out that Henrietta was marrying David?
(a) Crazy Joe.
(b) Cootie.
(c) Jumpin' Joe.
(d) Wild Willy.

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

5. What had Deborah's son been arrested for when she called Rebecca Skloot sobbing at the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 31?
(a) Arson.
(b) Rape.
(c) Robbery.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court rule on the case of Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty?

2. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?

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

4. Who was the curator at the Smithsonian Museum of American History that invited the Lacks family to an event at the museum?

5. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?

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