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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. 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.

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?
(a) Lost Souls.
(b) Lights Out.
(c) No Exit.
(d) Serendipity.

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

4. Where did Henrietta live with her grandfather growing up after her mother died?
(a) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(b) Baltimore, Maryland.
(c) Clover, Virginia.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?
(a) 29.
(b) 42.
(c) 36.
(d) 33.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?

2. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?

3. 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?

4. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?

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

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