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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the central reason that the HeLa factory was developed?
(a) To fight epilepsy.
(b) To fight polio.
(c) To fight syphilis.
(d) To fight cancer.

2. 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) Hemorrhagic fever.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Gonorrhea.

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

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

5. 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) 1943.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1911.

6. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?
(a) Almost 40.
(b) Almost 30.
(c) Almost 50.
(d) Almost 60.

7. When was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) October 4, 1925.
(b) January 17, 1919.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) August 1, 1920.

8. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1940s.

9. Who were the two British scientists that fused HeLa cells with mouse cells, creating the first human-animal hybrids?
(a) Alexis Carrel and Jonas Salk.
(b) Marie and Pierre Curie.
(c) Roland Pattillo and Michael Rogers.
(d) Henry Harris and John Watkins.

10. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?
(a) Emanuel Mandel.
(b) Ronald H. Berg.
(c) Harry Eagle.
(d) William Scherer.

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

12. Where was Henrietta Lacks born?
(a) Brooklyn, New York.
(b) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Roanoke, Virginia.

13. How many chromosomes are contained in a human cell?
(a) 42.
(b) 36.
(c) 46.
(d) 52.

14. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?
(a) 29.
(b) 36.
(c) 42.
(d) 33.

15. Which of Henrietta Lacks's children did not attend her funeral or know she'd died, according to the author in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?
(a) Cliff Lacks.
(b) Fred Lacks.
(c) Elsie Lacks.
(d) Lawrence Lacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname of Henrietta's cousin that tried to kill himself when he found out that Henrietta was marrying David?

2. 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?

3. How old was Henrietta when she gave birth to her first child?

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

5. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?

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