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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) He shot him.
(b) He stabbed him.
(c) He hit him in his car.
(d) He strangled him.

3. How old did Roland Pattillo say that Henrietta Lacks's husband was now, when Rebecca Skloot first contacted him to discuss Henrietta?
(a) 95.
(b) 92.
(c) 84.
(d) 77.

4. When did the Tuskegee syphilis study begin, as described by the author in Part One: Life, Chapter 6?
(a) The 1940s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1930s.

5. What was the population of Clover, Virginia, in 1998?
(a) 79.
(b) 269.
(c) 198.
(d) 307.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective reproduction?

2. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?

3. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?

4. How many people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the trial against Southam and Mendel? What sentence did the men receive?

2. Who established the first distribution center for HeLa cells? Where was it established?

3. What illness was contracted within the Lacks family after Henrietta's death? How were they affected by this illness?

4. How did Lawrence Lacks deal with the death of his mother? What led Lawrence into the military?

5. What advancements did Alexis Carrel achieve in medical progress during his career?

6. How does Mary Kubicek describe the instance when she first realized that Henrietta was "human" in Part Two: Death - Chapter 12?

7. What was the objective for Dr. Richard TeLinde in using cancer cells and samples from Howard Jones in his research?

8. How is Henrietta Lacks's funeral described in Part Two: Death? Who attended Henrietta's funeral? Where was she buried?

9. Where did the name "Helen Lane" arise? How did the Lacks family feel about "Helen Lane"?

10. What advancements and discoveries were made due to research using HeLa cells from 1960-1966?

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