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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. How old was Henrietta when she gave birth to her first child?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 17.

2. What disease nearly killed Henrietta's youngest son Joe not long after her death?
(a) Polio.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. What was Henrietta Lacks's name at birth?
(a) Helen Lane.
(b) Henrietta Pleasant.
(c) Wilma Anderson.
(d) Loretta Pleasant.

4. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?
(a) Tommy and Sarah.
(b) Joe and Fred.
(c) Cliff and Cootie.
(d) Sadie and Margaret.

5. In what year did the term "informed consent" first appear in court documents regarding the case of patient Martin Salgo?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long was Chester Southam's medical license suspended due to "fraud or deceit and unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine" after he'd injected unknowing patients with cancer cells?

2. When did the U.S.-led international war tribunal at Nuremberg sentence seven Nazi doctors to death for conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent?

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?

4. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?

5. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?

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