1. Where did Henrietta live with her grandfather growing up after her mother died?
(a) Cleveland, Mississippi.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Baltimore, Maryland.
(d) Clover, Virginia.

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

3. What disease nearly killed Henrietta's youngest son Joe not long after her death?
(a) Polio.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Pneumonia.

4. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?
(a) 269.
(b) 198.
(c) 307.
(d) 79.

5. The first time that live human cells were ever shipped via the U.S. Postal Service was when George Gey mailed HeLa cells to whom?
(a) William Scherer.
(b) Michael Rogers.
(c) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(d) Dr. Howard Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S.-led international war tribunal at Nuremberg sentence seven Nazi doctors to death for conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent?

2. How old was Deborah Lacks when the researchers from Johns Hopkins came to draw blood for DNA analysis of Henrietta's husband and children?

3. How many chromosomes are contained in a human cell?

4. What did Joe Lacks change his name to after he converted to Islam in prison?

5. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?

(see the answer key)

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