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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 95.
(d) 92.

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

3. How old was Henrietta when she gave birth to her first child?
(a) 13.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 17.

4. Who was the preacher that led Rebecca Skloot to Speed's Grocery in Part One: Life, Chapter 9?
(a) Reverend Elmer.
(b) Reverend Wilson.
(c) Reverend Jackson.
(d) Reverend Thompson.

5. 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) Harry Eagle.
(b) Henry Beecher.
(c) Michael Rogers.
(d) Emanuel Mandel.

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

7. What nickname did Deborah Lacks have within her family?
(a) Dale.
(b) Dottie.
(c) Liz.
(d) Debbie.

8. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Afghanistan War.
(d) The Korean War.

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

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

11. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?
(a) Cliff and Cootie.
(b) Tommy and Sarah.
(c) Sadie and Margaret.
(d) Joe and Fred.

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

13. What was the birth name of Henrietta Lacks's fifth child?
(a) David Lacks.
(b) Tommy Lacks.
(c) Edgar Lacks.
(d) Joseph Lacks.

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

15. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?

2. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?

3. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?

4. What does "ATCC" stand for in reference to the federal cell bank established by Lewis Coriell and others?

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

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