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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. When did Deborah Lacks officially divorce Reverend Pullum?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2004.

2. 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 water.
(b) He compared cells to oil.
(c) He compared cells to sand.
(d) He compared cells to food.

3. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?
(a) August 1, 1950.
(b) April 10, 1941.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) October 4, 1951.

4. What extra chromosome appears in individuals with Down syndrome?
(a) Chromosome number 21.
(b) Chromosome number 18.
(c) Chromosome number 16.
(d) Chromosome number 2.

5. 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) William.
(b) Joe.
(c) Jeremy.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the U.S.-led international war tribunal at Nuremberg sentence seven Nazi doctors to death for conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent?

3. What does "HIPAA" represent?

4. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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