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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?
(a) Almost 60.
(b) Almost 30.
(c) Almost 40.
(d) Almost 50.

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

4. When were HeLa cells fused with mouse cells to create the first animal-human hybrid cells?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1965.

5. How old was Lawrence when he an Bobbette moved in together?
(a) 19.
(b) 24.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?

2. Who was David and Henrietta's cousin that convinced David to look for work in the steel industry in Baltimore in 1941?

3. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?

4. Who were the two British scientists that fused HeLa cells with mouse cells, creating the first human-animal hybrids?

5. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advancements and discoveries were made due to research using HeLa cells from 1960-1966?

2. What role did Bobbette take in the family after marrying Lawrence? Why?

3. What illness was contracted within the Lacks family after Henrietta's death? How were they affected by this illness?

4. How did the doctors at Johns Hopkins treat Henrietta Lacks after her recurrence of cancer in June of 1951?

5. What led to the trial against Southam and Mendel? What sentence did the men receive?

6. How do you think Henrietta Lacks's life would have been different if her mother had not died when Henrietta was still a child? Why?

7. What did George Gey do with the HeLa cells that he obtained and cultured at his labs? What were Gey's objectives?

8. Why were HeLa cells useful in the study of virology and research into diseases? Was the malignant nature of the cells a factor?

9. How did Deborah Lacks respond to Rebecca Skloot when she first called her? What information did Rebecca learn from this call?

10. Where did the name "Helen Lane" arise? How did the Lacks family feel about "Helen Lane"?

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