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

2. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?
(a) Johnny and Cootie.
(b) Tommy and David.
(c) Walter and Jimmy.
(d) Fred and Cliff.

3. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Cootie.
(c) Cliff.
(d) Joe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Harvard anesthesiologist that published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Chester Southam's cancer research was just one of hundreds of similarly unethical cases?

2. 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?

3. Where did Henrietta live with her grandfather growing up after her mother died?

4. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?

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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