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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frank's last name?

2. In what state is Mr. Bellarmino giving a speech?

3. Mrs. Bond discovers that someone has been helping her son with ____________.

4. Frank makes an amazing recovery, much to the surprise of his what?

5. The person looking for the patent doesn't want to be left out in the cold when Rick Diehl discovers that the maturity gene does what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you agree with the hospital's reaction of destroying the remaining tissues in the Weller case when Emily Weller requests her own investigation?

2. Explain how greed motivates Josh and Rick in this section with regards to the maturity gene.

3. Explain how the Levines are further identified, in Chapter 23 and what that could mean later, as things develop.

4. Do you agree or disagree with Frank's doctor taking his tissue and why?

5. Explain the reaction that Tom Weller's sister has to her father's death. If you were in Tom's sister's position, would you have the same reaction?

6. Explain Alex Burnet's feelings about the court case against her father.

7. Brad Gordon is visited by a beautiful woman who reminds him how helpful his uncle has always been to him. To pay him back, the woman instructs Brad to contaminate the Burnet cell line at BioGen. Brad agrees. What further insight does that give into Brad's character?

8. Henry Kendall learns that the blood he took to Roberts is human and that the DNA matches his own. Henry goes to the NIH lab in Bethesda where he was working on a transgenic chimpanzee four years ago when an encephalitis outbreak interrupted. Henry spends time with the chimpanzee, who is, for all intents and purposes, Henry's son, before learning it is to be destroyed. Henry decides to steal the chimpanzee from the lab and take it home, though he is not sure what he will do with him then. Do you feel that it was right for Henry to steal the Chimpanzee?

9. Explain Rick Diehl's attitude regarding finding out that his wife cheated on him.

10. When Adam's behavior suddenly changes and he goes off drugs and gets a job, Josh tells their mother about the retrovirus Adam inhaled. Then, their mother asks Josh to send some of the retrovirus to a drug-addicted son of a friend. Do you agree with that request or Josh's reaction to it? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marty Roberts begins to feel pressure when Mrs. Weller threatens to sue and he is later surprised to see that some of Mr. Weller's bones are missing and then that some are replaced with metal tubes. When he later finds that the lab results were skewed and Mr. Weller may have been poisoned, he is enraged because all of the hospital problems are falling on his head.

Part 1: Do you feel that all hospitals are corrupt in some way or mix up test results, either accidentally or on purpose. For what reasons?

Part 2: If you were in Marty Roberts' place, how would you have handled all of the above mentioned problems at the hospital?

Essay Topic 2

Answer the following questions about Henry using examples from the story:

1. Why do you think Henry wanted to create a highly intelligent chimpanzee?

2. Why do you think Henry used his own DNA to make the chimpanzee cross breed, Dave?

3. Do you think that Henry thought of Dave as his son, or only as his experiment? Do you feel that his opinion changed throughout the book? If so, when and in what ways? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 3

Rick Diehl tries to get custody of his children by using his wife's genes to show that she is an unfit mother. Answer the following questions about that situation:

1. Do you feel that Rick should have custody of the children? Why or why not?

2. Do you feel that Rick has any right to say that his wife is genetically unfit to have custody? Why or why not?

3. What qualities do you feel make a good parent? Do you think that Rick or his wife have any of those qualities. If yes, which ones? If no, who should get the children, instead?

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