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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. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?
(a) William Scherer.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Emanuel Mandel.
(d) Ronald H. Berg.

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) Smeared lipstick.
(b) A pearl-encased locket.
(c) Chipped red toenail polish.
(d) Henrietta's wedding ring.

3. Where did Rebecca Skloot travel to in order to meet David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Grover.

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

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

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. 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?

3. What was the name of Deborah Lacks's first child?

4. Who was the press officer at the NFIP that wrote to George Gey in 1953 to say that he intended to write a more detailed article about Henrietta Lacks once her name was revealed in the press?

5. 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?

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