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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. How did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) He shot him.
(b) He stabbed him.
(c) He strangled him.
(d) He hit him in his car.

2. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

3. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) Bobbette.
(b) Ethel.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Sadie.

4. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court rule on the case of Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1977.

5. What was the name of the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Dr. Rogers.
(b) Dr. Wilbur.
(c) Dr. Jones.
(d) Dr. Gey.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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 is the name of Deborah Lacks's daughter?

4. In what year did Sonny Lacks undergo quintuple bypass surgery?

5. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?

(see the answer key)

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