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

2. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?
(a) Almost 40.
(b) Almost 50.
(c) Almost 30.
(d) Almost 60.

3. What comparison did the researcher at Johns Hopkins make for a person's cells and their rights to a portion of the profits for those cells in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) He compared cells to oil.
(b) He compared cells to water.
(c) He compared cells to food.
(d) He compared cells to sand.

4. What was listed as the official cause of Henrietta Lacks's death?
(a) Terminal uremia.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Grand mal seizure.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?

4. 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?

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

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