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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 1911.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1898.

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

4. Who was David and Henrietta's cousin that convinced David to look for work in the steel industry in Baltimore in 1941?
(a) Tommy Lacks.
(b) Joseph Lacks.
(c) Fred Garret.
(d) Johnny Pleasant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. How old was Deborah Lacks when she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

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

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

14. Where was Roland Pattillo working as a professor of gynecology when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him regarding Henrietta Lacks?
(a) UCLA School of Medicine.
(b) Harvard School of Medicine.
(c) Morehouse School of Medicine.
(d) Sewanee School of Medicine.

15. 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) No Exit.
(c) Lost Souls.
(d) Serendipity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?

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

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

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