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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. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?
(a) Joe and Fred.
(b) Cliff and Cootie.
(c) Tommy and Sarah.
(d) Sadie and Margaret.

2. Who was David and Henrietta's cousin that convinced David to look for work in the steel industry in Baltimore in 1941?
(a) Joseph Lacks.
(b) Fred Garret.
(c) Tommy Lacks.
(d) Johnny Pleasant.

3. 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) 8 pints.
(b) 10 pints.
(c) 2 pints.
(d) 5 pints.

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

5. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?
(a) Alexis Carrel.
(b) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(c) Sir Isaac Newton.
(d) Jonas Salk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Henrietta live with her grandfather growing up after her mother died?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?

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