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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. What war was Lawrence Lacks drafted into after lying about his age to get into pool halls?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Afghanistan War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

2. When did Alexis Carrel grow an "immortal chicken heart"?
(a) April 10, 1926.
(b) January 17, 1912.
(c) January 29, 1951.
(d) August 1, 1920.

3. Who was the gynecologist that examined Henrietta Lacks when she first went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to have the knot in her womb seen?
(a) Dr. William Scherer.
(b) Dr. Howard Jones.
(c) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(d) Dr. Roland Pattillo.

4. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?
(a) Joe and Fred.
(b) Cliff and Cootie.
(c) Sadie and Margaret.
(d) Tommy and Sarah.

5. Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types. What are these types?
(a) Sedentary and biological.
(b) Radiant and specialized.
(c) Invasive and noninvasive.
(d) Internal and external.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the BBC documentary that Courtney Speed borrowed from the library to show to Rebecca Skloot when she visited Turner Station?

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

3. Where was Henrietta Lacks born?

4. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?

5. The author says in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 that George Gey took HeLa cells with him to the Far East in 1953 in order to study what disease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What diagnosis did the doctors from Johns Hopkins reach regarding Henrietta's condition after her first visit? What treatment was available at this time for her condition?

5. 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?

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

7. How does the author describe the actions of Ethel and Galen in the narrative? What relationship did Ethel and Galen have to the Lackses?

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

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

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

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