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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Micheal Rogers's article about the Lacks family published?
(a) September 29, 1980.
(b) March 25, 1976.
(c) June 30, 1974.
(d) September 29, 1977.

2. Who was the young Johns Hopkins researcher that sent a gift to Deborah Lacks by way of Rebecca Skloot when Rebecca met Deborah for the first time?
(a) Dr. Howard Jones.
(b) Christoph Lengauer.
(c) Terry Sharrer.
(d) George Gey.

3. What color were the HeLa cells tinted that Deborah observed at Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

4. What was Paul Lurz's position at Crownsville Hospital Center when Deborah and Rebecca visited in search of past records?
(a) Director of biological sciences.
(b) Director of virology.
(c) Director of performance and improvement.
(d) Director of medical ethics.

5. How old was Dr. Howard Jones in 2009 when The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks went to press?
(a) 89.
(b) 102.
(c) 99.
(d) 85.

6. Who was the researcher at Johns Hopkins who showed Deborah her mother's cells?
(a) Dr. Howard Jones.
(b) Walter Nelson-Rees.
(c) Christoph Lengauer.
(d) Roland Pattillo.

7. Parents in what two states sued in 2009 to stop the nationwide practice of storing and conducting research on fetal blood samples?
(a) California and Washington.
(b) Kansas and Missouri.
(c) Minnesota and Texas.
(d) Oregon and New Jersey.

8. Who was the renowned geneticist that founded the world's first human genetics department at Johns Hopkins?
(a) William Scherer.
(b) George Gey.
(c) Charles Bynum.
(d) Victor McKusick.

9. In what year did Sonny Lacks undergo quintuple bypass surgery?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2003.

10. How old was Deborah's Cousin Gary when he died of a heart attack?
(a) 62.
(b) 71.
(c) 52.
(d) 59.

11. Who was the cancer researcher at UCLA that removed John Moore's spleen?
(a) Victor McKusick.
(b) Henry Beecher.
(c) David Golde.
(d) Emanuel Mandel.

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

13. What are the three core principles that are identified in the Belmont Report?
(a) Medical ethics, law, and science.
(b) Freedom of speech, expression, and self-hood.
(c) Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
(d) Tissues, cells, and blood.

14. How much money did the NIH invest in 2009 to develop a bank for the samples taken from newborns nationwide in the U.S.?
(a) $8.3 million.
(b) $13.5 million.
(c) $2.3 billion.
(d) $10 million.

15. 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) Over 620 million.
(b) Nearly 100 million.
(c) Over 307 million.
(d) Approximately 200 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Bobbette Lacks discover the truth about HeLa cells and their connection to Henrietta Lacks?

2. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?

3. How much money did David Lacks receive as settlement from a class-action lawsuit against a boiler manufacturer at Bethlehem Steel?

4. When was the Human Genome Project begun?

5. Where was Barbara Wyche working as a sociologist when she wrote to Congress demanding recognition for Henrietta Lacks's contribution to science?

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