All 9 Uses of

passage
in
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

I've done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written.
Chpt AFW

passages = short parts of longer written works

She got herself some basic science textbooks, a good dictionary, and a journal she'd use to copy passage after passage from biology textbooks: "Cell is a minute portion of living substance," she wrote.
Chpt 3.24

passage = a short part of a longer written work

She got herself some basic science textbooks, a good dictionary, and a journal she'd use to copy passage after passage from biology textbooks: "Cell is a minute portion of living substance," she wrote.
Chpt 3.24

Then she read the passage out loud to herself, shaking with excitement: They were all the cells of an American who in her entire life had probably not been more than a few miles from her home in Baltimore, Maryland.
Chpt 3.26

Gary flipped to another passage for me to read: "Someone will ask, 'How can the dead be raised to life?'"
Chpt 3.36 *

In that moment, reading those passages, I understood completely how some of the Lackses could believe, without doubt, that Henrietta had been chosen by the Lord to become an immortal being.
Chpt 3.36

passages = short parts of longer written works

He slid the Bible from my hands and flipped to another passage, then handed it back, pointing at one sentence: "Why do you who are here find it impossible to believe that God raises the dead?"
Chpt 3.36

passage = a short part of a longer written work

Definitions:

(1) (passage as in: In lines 1-9 of the passage...)
a short part of a longer written work

This meaning of passage is commonly seen on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

More frequently, passage refers to a passageway for travel or to the act of traveling. It can also refer to the passing of time or of a law. See a comprehensive dictionary for the many meanings of passage, but for comfort taking standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, be very familiar with passage being used to refer to a short excerpt from a longer written work.