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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Rebecca Skloot travel to in order to meet David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Grover.

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

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?
(a) 92.
(b) 95.
(c) 84.
(d) 77.

4. What did Joe Lacks change his name to after he converted to Islam in prison?
(a) Johnny Pleasant.
(b) Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(c) Andrew Robertson.
(d) Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman.

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 32.
(d) 19.

6. Who was Henrietta's grandfather that raised her after her mother died?
(a) William Lacks.
(b) Tommy Lacks.
(c) Johnny Pleasant.
(d) David Lacks.

7. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?
(a) August 1, 1920.
(b) April 10, 1926.
(c) January 17, 1912.
(d) January 29, 1951.

8. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1956.

9. What radio horror show in the 1930s related the fictional story of a Dr. Alberts who created an immortal chicken heart that overcame the earth?
(a) No Exit.
(b) Lost Souls.
(c) Serendipity.
(d) Lights Out.

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

11. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?
(a) Cliff.
(b) Galen.
(c) Cootie.
(d) Joe.

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

13. Who was the gynecologist that examined Henrietta Lacks when she first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to have the knot in her womb seen?
(a) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(b) Dr. William Scherer.
(c) Dr. Roland Pattillo.
(d) Dr. Howard Jones.

14. What discovery did the researchers make after sending HeLa cells into space in the 1960s?
(a) The cancer cells died in space.
(b) The cancer cells exploded in space.
(c) The cancer cells transformed into noncancerous cells in space.
(d) The cancer cells began dividing more quickly with each trip into space.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?

2. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?

3. 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?

4. How many people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?

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

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