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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What DNA testing company is described by the author in the Afterword as only providing customers with genealogical information "if they first sign a form granting permission for their samples to be stored for future research"?
(a) Oxford Ancestors.
(b) African Ancestry.
(c) AncestryDNA.
(d) 23andMe.

2. When was the Human Genome Project begun?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1967.

3. Who is the director of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Lab oratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, cited by the author in the Afterword?
(a) Baruch Blumberg.
(b) Wayne Grody.
(c) Christoph Lengauer.
(d) Judith Greenburg.

4. Who came with Deborah to Johns Hopkins to see Henrietta Lacks's cells?
(a) Cootie.
(b) Zakariyya.
(c) Cliff.
(d) Sadie.

5. How many years in prison did Zakariyya serve of his sentence before he was released for his second-degree murder conviction?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 2 years.

6. Who is the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt that the author cites in the Afterword?
(a) Baruch Blumberg.
(b) Ellen Wright Clayton.
(c) Judith Greenburg.
(d) Christoph Lengauer.

7. What organization created the Belmont Report?
(a) The Nelson-Rees Publishing Company.
(b) The World Health Organization.
(c) The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
(d) The National Foundation for Cancer Research.

8. Who prayed with Deborah and brought her down from her manic state in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 35?
(a) Gary.
(b) Cliff.
(c) Phil.
(d) Cootie.

9. Who was the BBC producer that began making a documentary about the Lacks family in the 1990s?
(a) Walter Nelson-Rees.
(b) Alfred Carter.
(c) Charles Bynum.
(d) Adam Curtis.

10. In what year did President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission issue a report saying that federal oversight of tissue research was "inadequate" and "ambiguous"?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1998.

11. Rebecca Skloot says in the Afterword that in 1999, the RAND Corporation published a report that estimated "conservatively" that how many tissue samples were stored in the United States alone?
(a) Nearly 100 million.
(b) Over 620 million.
(c) Approximately 200 million.
(d) Over 307 million.

12. What realization did Deborah make when speaking with the researcher at Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) She realized that Rebecca Skloot was writing a book.
(b) She realized that her mother's cells were not malignant.
(c) She realized that her mother did not die.
(d) She realized that all HeLa cells were cancerous.

13. As of the book's publication in 2009, over how many scientific articles had been published about research done on HeLa?
(a) Over 80,000.
(b) Over 70,000.
(c) Over 60,000.
(d) Over 100,000.

14. When Deborah took Rebecca Skloot to meet her brother Zakariyya, she reminded her that she should never make the mistake of calling him by what name?
(a) Jack.
(b) Joe.
(c) Jeremy.
(d) William.

15. Of whom did Zakariyya say "Livin' with that abusive crazy woman was worse than livin' in prison" in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 30?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Ethel.
(d) Deborah.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Deborah Lacks when the researchers from Johns Hopkins came to draw blood for DNA analysis of Henrietta's husband and children?

2. What does "HIPAA" represent?

3. When was the Declaration of Helsinki originally adopted?

4. Who is described in the Afterword as "the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who used Ted Slavin's antibodies for hepatitis B research"?

5. What did the doctor determine when Deborah saw him after her trip to clover in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 37?

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