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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. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?
(a) January 29, 1951.
(b) April 10, 1941.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) October 4, 1951.

2. 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) Tommy and Sarah.
(b) Cliff and Cootie.
(c) Joe and Fred.
(d) Sadie and Margaret.

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

4. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?
(a) Man and Superman.
(b) Lights Out.
(c) Man, the Unknown.
(d) An Error of Cells.

5. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?
(a) October 4, 1951.
(b) February 5, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) January 29, 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?

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. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?

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

5. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?

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