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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Henrietta's grandfather that raised her after her mother died?

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. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?

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