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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first time that live human cells were ever shipped via the U.S. Postal Service was when George Gey mailed HeLa cells to whom?
(a) William Scherer.
(b) Dr. Howard Jones.
(c) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(d) Michael Rogers.

3. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?
(a) Bugs Bunny.
(b) Father Richard.
(c) Uncle Dick.
(d) Mussolini.

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

5. 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) Lawrence Lacks.
(d) Elsie Lacks.

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

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

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

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

10. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?
(a) Necromancy.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) Virology.
(d) Ebonics.

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

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

13. When did Joe Lacks turn himself into the police for the murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) February 5, 1951.
(b) August 20, 1972.
(c) September 29, 1970.
(d) October 4, 1969.

14. What discovery did the researchers make after sending HeLa cells into space in the 1960s?
(a) The cancer cells transformed into noncancerous cells in space.
(b) The cancer cells began dividing more quickly with each trip into space.
(c) The cancer cells exploded in space.
(d) The cancer cells died in space.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. When were HeLa cells fused with mouse cells to create the first animal-human hybrid cells?

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

5. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?

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