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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. On what date does Rebecca Skloot describe driving to clover in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 38?
(a) July 9, 2010.
(b) March 25, 2008.
(c) January 18, 2009.
(d) October 11, 1996.

2. 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 1930s.
(d) The 1940s.

3. The author states in the book that by the time Keenan Kester Cofield contacted the Lacks family, he was already banned from filing lawsuits in how many countries?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. What did the bathroom graffiti in the medical school restroom say that first inspired Michael Rogers to learn about HeLa cells and their background?
(a) The Way of HeLa!
(b) Who is HeLa?
(c) I am HeLa!
(d) Helen Lane Lives!

5. What caused the death of David Lacks?
(a) Injuries from a car accident.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Stroke.
(d) He was shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?

2. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?

3. What sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?

4. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?

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

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