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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. Who is the director of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Lab oratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, cited by the author in the Afterword?
(a) Christoph Lengauer.
(b) Judith Greenburg.
(c) Wayne Grody.
(d) Baruch Blumberg.

2. In what year did Sonny Lacks undergo quintuple bypass surgery?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2005.

3. What are the three core principles that are identified in the Belmont Report?
(a) Freedom of speech, expression, and self-hood.
(b) Tissues, cells, and blood.
(c) Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
(d) Medical ethics, law, and science.

4. What comparison did the researcher at Johns Hopkins make for a person's cells and their rights to a portion of the profits for those cells in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) He compared cells to water.
(b) He compared cells to sand.
(c) He compared cells to food.
(d) He compared cells to oil.

5. Where did Roland Pattillo grow up?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was the president of the National Foundation for Cancer Research in 2001?

3. When was the Human Genome Project declared complete?

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

5. What realization did Deborah make when speaking with the researcher at Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Deborah discover during her visit to her doctor after she returned from her research travels with Rebecca Skloot in 2001?

2. What gift did Rebecca Skloot give to Deborah Lacks when she first met her in person? How did Deborah respond?

3. What caused Deborah Lacks anxiety after her blood sample was collected by Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 23?

4. What factors contributed to the Lacks family's distrust of Rebecca and of the scientific community?

5. What statement does Rebecca Skloot make about the legality of Johns Hopkins' actions in Henrietta's case in the Afterword?

6. How does the author describe John Moore's illness in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 25? When did Moore first get sick?

7. Discuss the actions of the doctors at Johns Hopkins in obtaining blood samples for research from the Lacks family. What was unethical about these actions?

8. How did Deborah's behavior change after her visit to Crownsville with Rebecca?

9. How were Deborah and Zakariyya affected by their meeting with Christoph Lengauer at Johns Hopkins?

10. When did Deborah Lacks die? What is significant about the timing of her death in Rebecca Skloot's narrative?

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