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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 Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) August 1, 1920.
(b) January 17, 1919.
(c) October 4, 1925.
(d) April 10, 1941.

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

3. Where was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) Roanoke, Virginia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the birth name of Henrietta Lacks's fifth child?

2. Who was David and Henrietta's cousin that convinced David to look for work in the steel industry in Baltimore in 1941?

3. What nickname did Deborah Lacks have within her family?

4. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?

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

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