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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Deborah Lacks separate from her husband and move into an assisted-living apartment of her own, according to the author in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 38?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2010.
(d) 1999.

2. How did Deborah describe Cootie's death to Rebecca in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 38?
(a) He shot himself.
(b) He was hit by a car.
(c) He was killed in prison.
(d) He died from cancer.

3. What publication did Michael Rogers write for when he came to interview the Lackses?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Time.
(c) People.
(d) The New Yorker.

4. What was the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act designed to prohibit?
(a) It prohibits the publication of personal data.
(b) It prohibits the taking of cells without consent.
(c) It prohibits the use of genetic information in health insurance and employment.
(d) It prohibits research on cells without informed consent.

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

6. How much money did David Lacks receive as settlement from a class-action lawsuit against a boiler manufacturer at Bethlehem Steel?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $23,000.
(d) $12,000.

7. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1981.

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

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

10. Who did a fireman say saved Deborah's life by slapping her to keep her awake after she'd had a stroke in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 37?
(a) Davon.
(b) Cootie.
(c) Cliff.
(d) Alfred.

11. Who was the founder of the biomedical ethics center at the University of Iowa?
(a) Christoph Lengauer.
(b) Baruch Blumberg.
(c) Judith Greenburg.
(d) Robert Weir.

12. The author states in the book that by the time Keenan Kester Cofield contacted the Lacks family, he was already banned from filing lawsuits in how many countries?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

13. On what date did Rebecca Skloot finally meet face-to-face with Deborah Lacks for the first time?
(a) July 9, 2000.
(b) January 3, 2002.
(c) October 11, 1996.
(d) August 1, 2001.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does Rebecca Skloot describe driving to clover in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 38?

2. Who prayed with Deborah and brought her down from her manic state in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 35?

3. Who is the molecular biologist that founded the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University?

4. What was the population at the asylum of Crownsville Hospital when Elsie died in 1955?

5. 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"?

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