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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Death – Chapters 17 - 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) 10 years in prison.
(b) 15 years in prison.
(c) 30 years in prison.
(d) 5 years in prison.

3. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?
(a) The MIT Center for Cancer Research.
(b) Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
(c) The Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Research.
(d) The Harvard School of Medicine Center for Cancer Research.

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

5. What was the name of Deborah Lacks's first child?
(a) Alfred Carter.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Henry Harris.
(d) Fred Garret.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?

2. How many chromosomes are contained in a human cell?

3. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?

4. 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?

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

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