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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 year was it when a group of researchers at the National Institutes of Health had proven the possibility of immortal cells using mouse cells?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1898.

2. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1941.

3. 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?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Gonorrhea.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?
(a) 92.
(b) 95.
(c) 77.
(d) 84.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the preacher that led Rebecca Skloot to Speed's Grocery in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

2. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?

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. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?

5. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?

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