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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. 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?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Hemorrhagic fever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Gonorrhea.

2. On what date did Rebecca Skloot finally meet face-to-face with Deborah Lacks for the first time?
(a) July 9, 2000.
(b) January 3, 2002.
(c) August 1, 2001.
(d) October 11, 1996.

3. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?
(a) Sedentary and biological.
(b) Internal and external.
(c) Invasive and noninvasive.
(d) Radiant and specialized.

4. What had Deborah's son been arrested for when she called Rebecca Skloot sobbing at the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 31?
(a) Rape.
(b) Arson.
(c) Murder.
(d) Robbery.

5. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?
(a) Sir Isaac Newton.
(b) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(c) Jonas Salk.
(d) Alexis Carrel.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What is described in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 as "an essential part of science"?

4. Rebecca Skloot states in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 24 that a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database shows how many patents involving HeLa cells?

5. What year was it when a group of researchers at the National Institutes of Health had proven the possibility of immortal cells using mouse cells?

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