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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For how long was Joe Lacks in the military before being discharged?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 2 years.

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

5. Who was the director of "Negro Activities" for the Tuskegee Institute when the HeLa Distribution Center was developed?
(a) Roland Pattillo.
(b) William Scherer.
(c) Charles Bynum.
(d) Michael Rogers.

6. 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) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(b) William Scherer.
(c) Dr. Howard Jones.
(d) Michael Rogers.

7. What does "ATCC" stand for in reference to the federal cell bank established by Lewis Coriell and others?
(a) American Technological Culture Containment.
(b) American Technical Control Center.
(c) Arterial Tissue and Culture Collective.
(d) The American Type Culture Collection.

8. The author says in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 that George Gey took HeLa cells with him to the Far East in 1953 in order to study what disease?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Hemorrhagic fever.
(d) Gonorrhea.

9. 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 began dividing more quickly with each trip into space.
(c) The cancer cells exploded in space.
(d) The cancer cells transformed into noncancerous cells in space.

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

11. 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. Howard Jones.
(b) Dr. William Scherer.
(c) Dr. Roland Pattillo.
(d) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.

12. 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?
(a) January 29, 1951.
(b) August 20, 1947.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) April 10, 1941.

13. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?
(a) Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
(b) The MIT Center for Cancer Research.
(c) The Harvard School of Medicine Center for Cancer Research.
(d) The Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Research.

14. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?
(a) William Lacks.
(b) Johnny Pleasant.
(c) David Lacks.
(d) Tommy Lacks.

15. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?
(a) Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent.
(b) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde and George Gey.
(c) Charles Bynum and William Scherer.
(d) Harry Eagle and Fred Garret.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?

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

3. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?

4. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?

5. When were HeLa cells fused with mouse cells to create the first animal-human hybrid cells?

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