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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. How many people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?
(a) Over 800 people.
(b) About 200 people.
(c) About 300 people.
(d) Over 600 people.

2. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?
(a) Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent.
(b) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde and George Gey.
(c) Harry Eagle and Fred Garret.
(d) Charles Bynum and William Scherer.

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

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

5. How old was Henrietta when she gave birth to her first child?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 16.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of "Negro Activities" for the Tuskegee Institute when the HeLa Distribution Center was developed?

2. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?

3. 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?

4. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author describe the setting of "Lacks Town" when she first visited in 1999?

5. How did the doctors at Johns Hopkins treat Henrietta Lacks after her recurrence of cancer in June of 1951?

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

7. What did George Gey do with the HeLa cells that he obtained and cultured at his labs? What were Gey's objectives?

8. What unethical actions were committed by virologist Chester Southam in his research with HeLa cells?

9. What role did Bobbette take in the family after marrying Lawrence? Why?

10. Why were HeLa cells useful in the study of virology and research into diseases? Was the malignant nature of the cells a factor?

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