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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. When Deborah took Rebecca Skloot to meet her brother Zakariyya, she reminded her that she should never make the mistake of calling him by what name?
(a) Jeremy.
(b) Jack.
(c) William.
(d) Joe.

2. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?
(a) January 29, 1951.
(b) October 4, 1951.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

3. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?
(a) Bugs Bunny.
(b) Father Richard.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Uncle Dick.

4. How much money did David Lacks receive as settlement from a class-action lawsuit against a boiler manufacturer at Bethlehem Steel?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $23,000.
(d) $1,000.

5. What gift did Deborah give to Zakariyya when she took Rebecca to meet him in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 30?
(a) A plaque with their mother's name on it.
(b) A Bible.
(c) The rendering of a HeLa cell.
(d) A check for $1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the cancer researcher at UCLA that removed John Moore's spleen?

2. Who discovered radium and its ability to destroy cancer cells?

3. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?

4. What was the name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?

5. What was the central reason that the HeLa factory was developed?

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