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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 is described in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 as "an essential part of science"?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Replication.
(c) Division.
(d) Delusion.

2. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?
(a) August 1, 1950.
(b) October 4, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) February 5, 1951.

3. Where did Henrietta live with her grandfather growing up after her mother died?
(a) Clover, Virginia.
(b) Baltimore, Maryland.
(c) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

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

5. 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?
(a) Lost Souls.
(b) Lights Out.
(c) Serendipity.
(d) No Exit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how long was Joe Lacks in the military before being discharged?

3. What does "ATCC" stand for in reference to the federal cell bank established by Lewis Coriell and others?

4. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?

5. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?

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