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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 old was Deborah Lacks when she became pregnant with her first child?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.

2. What was the name of Deborah Lacks's first child?
(a) Harry Eagle.
(b) Henry Harris.
(c) Fred Garret.
(d) Alfred Carter.

3. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?
(a) Almost 60.
(b) Almost 40.
(c) Almost 50.
(d) Almost 30.

4. What researcher at the NIH used HeLa cells to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready to use?
(a) Harry Eagle.
(b) Charles Bynum.
(c) Roland Pattillo.
(d) Roland Pattillo.

5. What radio horror show in the 1930s related the fictional story of a Dr. Alberts who created an immortal chicken heart that overcame the earth?
(a) Lights Out.
(b) Serendipity.
(c) Lost Souls.
(d) No Exit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?

2. How old was Henrietta Lacks when she became pregnant with her fifth child?

3. What U.S. President created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis?

4. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?

5. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were Mary Kubicek's impressions of HeLa cells when she first began observing them? What were George Gey's impressions of the cells?

4. How were tissue samples obtained following Henrietta Lacks's death? Why were they obtained?

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

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

7. What precedent was set by the 1957 case of patient Martin Salgo?

8. How did Deborah Lacks respond to Rebecca Skloot when she first called her? What information did Rebecca learn from this call?

9. How does the author describe Courtney Speed in the narrative? What business(es) did Ms. Speed run at the time the author first met her?

10. What did Henrietta's doctors at Johns Hopkins find during her repeated visits in June of 1951?

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