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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 term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Virology.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) Ebonics.
(d) Necromancy.

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

3. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1956.

4. 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) 1943.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1911.

5. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?
(a) UCLA School of Medicine.
(b) Harvard School of Medicine.
(c) Morehouse School of Medicine.
(d) Sewanee School of Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?

2. What radio horror show in the 1930s related the fictional story of a Dr. Alberts who created an immortal chicken heart that overcame the earth?

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

4. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?

5. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?

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