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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. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Polio.
(d) Epilepsy.

2. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?
(a) October 4, 1951.
(b) February 5, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) January 29, 1945.

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

5. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?
(a) Alexis Carrel.
(b) Sir Isaac Newton.
(c) Jonas Salk.
(d) Marie and Pierre Curie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the gynecologist that examined Henrietta Lacks when she first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to have the knot in her womb seen?

2. The author says in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 that George Gey took HeLa cells with him to the Far East in 1953 in order to study what disease?

3. What researcher at the NIH used HeLa cells to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready to use?

4. Which of Henrietta Lacks's children did not attend her funeral or know she'd died, according to the author in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?

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

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