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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. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?
(a) October 4, 1951.
(b) January 29, 1951.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

2. Where did Rebecca Skloot travel to in order to meet David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Grover.

3. How old was Henrietta when she gave birth to her first child?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 13.

4. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?
(a) 5 pints.
(b) 10 pints.
(c) 2 pints.
(d) 8 pints.

5. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?
(a) Tommy Lacks.
(b) William Lacks.
(c) David Lacks.
(d) Johnny Pleasant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?

2. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?

3. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?

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

5. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?

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