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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Death – Chapters 12 - 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Lawrence when he an Bobbette moved in together?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 30.
(d) 19.

2. What image did Mary Kubicek describe to the author as having instilled in her the realization that Henrietta Lacks was "a real person" in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?
(a) Chipped red toenail polish.
(b) Henrietta's wedding ring.
(c) Smeared lipstick.
(d) A pearl-encased locket.

3. What was the central reason that the HeLa factory was developed?
(a) To fight syphilis.
(b) To fight cancer.
(c) To fight polio.
(d) To fight epilepsy.

4. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?
(a) Cliff.
(b) Cootie.
(c) Galen.
(d) Joe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What extra chromosome appears in individuals with Down syndrome?

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

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

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