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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. What publication did Michael Rogers write for when he came to interview the Lackses?
(a) People.
(b) Rolling Stone.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Time.

2. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Harvard School of Medicine.
(b) Sewanee School of Medicine.
(c) Morehouse School of Medicine.
(d) UCLA School of Medicine.

3. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1930s.

4. How old was Lawrence when he an Bobbette moved in together?
(a) 18.
(b) 30.
(c) 19.
(d) 24.

5. How many years in prison did Zakariyya serve of his sentence before he was released for his second-degree murder conviction?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Deborah Lacks when the researchers from Johns Hopkins came to draw blood for DNA analysis of Henrietta's husband and children?

2. How much money did David Lacks receive as settlement from a class-action lawsuit against a boiler manufacturer at Bethlehem Steel?

3. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?

4. Where did Rebecca Skloot travel to in order to meet David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

5. Who was the young Johns Hopkins researcher that sent a gift to Deborah Lacks by way of Rebecca Skloot when Rebecca met Deborah for the first time?

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