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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Deborah Lacks's first child?
(a) Harry Eagle.
(b) Fred Garret.
(c) Henry Harris.
(d) Alfred Carter.

2. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Sewanee School of Medicine.
(b) Morehouse School of Medicine.
(c) UCLA School of Medicine.
(d) Harvard School of Medicine.

4. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?
(a) Lights Out.
(b) Man and Superman.
(c) An Error of Cells.
(d) Man, the Unknown.

5. What extra chromosome appears in individuals with Down syndrome?
(a) Chromosome number 21.
(b) Chromosome number 2.
(c) Chromosome number 18.
(d) Chromosome number 16.

6. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?
(a) The Afghanistan War.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) World War II.

7. What image did Mary Kubicek describe to the author as having instilled in her the realization that Henrietta Lacks was "a real person" in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?
(a) A pearl-encased locket.
(b) Henrietta's wedding ring.
(c) Chipped red toenail polish.
(d) Smeared lipstick.

8. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Virology.
(b) Ebonics.
(c) Eugenics.
(d) Necromancy.

9. Alexis Carrel died while he was awaiting trial for what crime?
(a) Impersonating a medical professional.
(b) Collaborating with the Nazis.
(c) Fraud and negligence.
(d) Arson.

10. How many points compose the code of ethics known as the Nuremberg Code?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

11. On what date did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) September 15, 1970.
(b) January 29, 1972.
(c) October 4, 1969.
(d) October 4, 1951.

12. What was listed as the official cause of Henrietta Lacks's death?
(a) Terminal uremia.
(b) Grand mal seizure.
(c) Stroke.
(d) Heart attack.

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

14. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?
(a) October 4, 1951.
(b) January 29, 1951.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

15. Who was the press officer at the NFIP that wrote to George Gey in 1953 to say that he intended to write a more detailed article about Henrietta Lacks once her name was revealed in the press?
(a) Ronald H. Berg.
(b) Charles Bynum.
(c) Harry Eagle.
(d) William Scherer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?

2. For how long was Joe Lacks in the military before being discharged?

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?

4. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?

5. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?

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