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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 name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?
(a) HeLa: Woman Behind the Mask.
(b) An Error of Cells.
(c) The Way of All Flesh.
(d) Man, the Unknown.

2. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?
(a) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(b) Michael Rogers.
(c) Fred Garret.
(d) Roland Pattillo.

3. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1990.

4. When was the Human Genome Project declared complete?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2012.

5. Of whom did Zakariyya say "Livin' with that abusive crazy woman was worse than livin' in prison" in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 30?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Ethel.
(d) Deborah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Deborah Lacks's daughter?

2. What type of cancer had John Moore developed at the age of thirty-one?

3. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?

4. Where did Roland Pattillo grow up?

5. What disease nearly killed Henrietta's youngest son Joe not long after her death?

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