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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) A pearl-encased locket.
(b) Smeared lipstick.
(c) Henrietta's wedding ring.
(d) Chipped red toenail polish.

4. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?
(a) 19.
(b) 12.
(c) 32.
(d) 15.

5. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?
(a) Fred and Cliff.
(b) Johnny and Cootie.
(c) Tommy and David.
(d) Walter and Jimmy.

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

7. What is described in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 as "an essential part of science"?
(a) Replication.
(b) Delusion.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Division.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?
(a) April 10, 1941.
(b) January 29, 1951.
(c) October 4, 1951.
(d) February 5, 1951.

15. Who was the Harvard anesthesiologist that published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that Chester Southam's cancer research was just one of hundreds of similarly unethical cases?
(a) Henry Beecher.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Michael Rogers.
(d) Emanuel Mandel.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What was the name of the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Henrietta Lacks?

5. Where did Chester Southam advertise for medical research volunteers in May of 1956?

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