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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. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1925.

2. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?
(a) Almost 60.
(b) Almost 40.
(c) Almost 30.
(d) Almost 50.

3. 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.

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) 2 pints.
(c) 10 pints.
(d) 8 pints.

5. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?
(a) 92.
(b) 77.
(c) 84.
(d) 95.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?

3. What was Henrietta Lacks's name at birth?

4. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?

5. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?

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