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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Henrietta Lacks's name at birth?
2. What nickname did Deborah Lacks have within her family?
3. How many points compose the code of ethics known as the Nuremberg Code?
4. When did the U.S.-led international war tribunal at Nuremberg sentence seven Nazi doctors to death for conducting unthinkable research on Jews without consent?
5. What was Hector Henry's nickname that he introduced himself as to Rebecca Skloot in Part One: Life, Chapter 10?
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 was discovered during Henrietta Lacks's autopsy? Where had Henrietta's cancer spread?
3. What was the objective for Dr. Richard TeLinde in using cancer cells and samples from Howard Jones in his research?
4. How did Henrietta meet David Lacks? How did their early relationship develop?
5. What did Henrietta's doctors at Johns Hopkins find during her repeated visits in June of 1951?
6. How does Mary Kubicek describe the instance when she first realized that Henrietta was "human" in Part Two: Death - Chapter 12?
7. How did Deborah Lacks respond to Rebecca Skloot when she first called her? What information did Rebecca learn from this call?
8. Who established the first distribution center for HeLa cells? Where was it established?
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 precedent was set by the 1957 case of patient Martin Salgo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the impact of the Nuremberg Trials on medicine, science, and research. What regulations and standards arose as a result of the Nuremberg Trials?
Essay Topic 2
When and where was the HeLa Factory established? What was its mission? Who was behind its development? What is the status of the HeLa Factory today?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the actions of the professionals at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the narrative. What unethical actions were committed by the professionals of this institution? How were these actions unethical?
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