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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?
(a) Polio.
(b) Leukemia.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Tuberculosis.

2. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) October 4, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) January 29, 1945.

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

4. How old was Alexis Carrel when he invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together?
(a) 22.
(b) 39.
(c) 62.
(d) 45.

5. 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) William Scherer.
(b) Charles Bynum.
(c) Harry Eagle.
(d) Ronald H. Berg.

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

7. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?
(a) Father Richard.
(b) Bugs Bunny.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) Uncle Dick.

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

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

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

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. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?
(a) Time magazine.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) Science magazine.
(d) The Minneapolis Star.

13. What year was it when a group of researchers at the National Institutes of Health had proven the possibility of immortal cells using mouse cells?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1911.

14. What sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) 15 years in prison.
(b) 30 years in prison.
(c) 10 years in prison.
(d) 5 years in prison.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Lawrence when he an Bobbette moved in together?

2. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?

3. Alexis Carrel died while he was awaiting trial for what crime?

4. Who was the preacher that led Rebecca Skloot to Speed's Grocery in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?

5. Who was the director of "Negro Activities" for the Tuskegee Institute when the HeLa Distribution Center was developed?

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