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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 28 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the gynecologist that examined Henrietta Lacks when she first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to have the knot in her womb seen?
(a) Dr. Howard Jones.
(b) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(c) Dr. William Scherer.
(d) Dr. Roland Pattillo.

2. Who was the renowned geneticist that founded the world's first human genetics department at Johns Hopkins?
(a) George Gey.
(b) Charles Bynum.
(c) Victor McKusick.
(d) William Scherer.

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

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

5. The first time that live human cells were ever shipped via the U.S. Postal Service was when George Gey mailed HeLa cells to whom?
(a) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(b) Dr. Howard Jones.
(c) Michael Rogers.
(d) William Scherer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?

2. On what date did Roland Pattillo organize the first annual HeLa Cancer Control Symposium?

3. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?

4. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?

5. How old was Alexis Carrel when he invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together?

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