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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Immortality – Chapters 33 - 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?
(a) Science magazine.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) Time magazine.
(d) The Minneapolis Star.

2. When was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) August 1, 1920.
(b) April 10, 1941.
(c) January 17, 1919.
(d) October 4, 1925.

3. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?
(a) 36.
(b) 29.
(c) 42.
(d) 33.

4. What did Joe Lacks change his name to after he converted to Islam in prison?
(a) Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman.
(b) Andrew Robertson.
(c) Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(d) Johnny Pleasant.

5. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Virology.
(b) Ebonics.
(c) Necromancy.
(d) Eugenics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname did Deborah Lacks have within her family?

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

3. Which of Henrietta Lacks's children did not attend her funeral or know she'd died, according to the author in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?

4. When was Micheal Rogers's article about the Lacks family published?

5. Who was the director of "Negro Activities" for the Tuskegee Institute when the HeLa Distribution Center was developed?

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