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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) 79.
(b) 198.
(c) 269.
(d) 307.

2. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?
(a) April 10, 1941.
(b) February 5, 1951.
(c) August 1, 1950.
(d) October 4, 1951.

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

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

5. What researcher at the NIH used HeLa cells to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready to use?
(a) Charles Bynum.
(b) Roland Pattillo.
(c) Roland Pattillo.
(d) Harry Eagle.

6. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1942.

7. How many people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?
(a) Over 800 people.
(b) About 300 people.
(c) About 200 people.
(d) Over 600 people.

8. In what year did the term "informed consent" first appear in court documents regarding the case of patient Martin Salgo?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1945.

9. What was the name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?
(a) The Way of All Flesh.
(b) Man, the Unknown.
(c) HeLa: Woman Behind the Mask.
(d) An Error of Cells.

10. 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) 1911.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1943.

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

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

13. 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) Lights Out.
(b) Lost Souls.
(c) No Exit.
(d) Serendipity.

14. 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) Harvard School of Medicine.
(c) UCLA School of Medicine.
(d) Morehouse School of Medicine.

15. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?
(a) Internal and external.
(b) Sedentary and biological.
(c) Radiant and specialized.
(d) Invasive and noninvasive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the gynecologist that examined Henrietta Lacks when she first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to have the knot in her womb seen?

2. On what date did Henrietta Lacks die?

3. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?

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

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

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