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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Life - Chapters 6 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?
(a) HeLa: Woman Behind the Mask.
(b) The Way of All Flesh.
(c) Man, the Unknown.
(d) An Error of Cells.

2. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?
(a) October 4, 1951.
(b) August 1, 1950.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

3. Where was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) Roanoke, Virginia.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(d) Washington, D.C.

4. Who was Henrietta's grandfather that raised her after her mother died?
(a) Johnny Pleasant.
(b) David Lacks.
(c) William Lacks.
(d) Tommy Lacks.

5. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?
(a) Fred Garret.
(b) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(c) Roland Pattillo.
(d) Michael Rogers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?

2. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?

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

4. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?

5. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?

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