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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 sentence was Joe Lacks given for the second-degree murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
2. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?
3. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?
4. What is described in Part Two: Death, Chapter 13 as "an essential part of science"?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the setting of "Lacks Town" when she first visited in 1999?
2. How does the author describe the actions of Ethel and Galen in the narrative? What relationship did Ethel and Galen have to the Lackses?
3. How is Henrietta Lacks's funeral described in Part Two: Death? Who attended Henrietta's funeral? Where was she buried?
4. What precedent was set by the 1957 case of patient Martin Salgo?
5. What were Mary Kubicek's impressions of HeLa cells when she first began observing them? What were George Gey's impressions of the cells?
6. What did Henrietta's doctors at Johns Hopkins find during her repeated visits in June of 1951?
7. Who established the first distribution center for HeLa cells? Where was it established?
8. How did Lawrence Lacks deal with the death of his mother? What led Lawrence into the military?
9. What was the objective for Dr. Richard TeLinde in using cancer cells and samples from Howard Jones in his research?
10. Where did the name "Helen Lane" arise? How did the Lacks family feel about "Helen Lane"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the use of HeLa cells in hybridization research. When did scientist first create animal-human hybrid cells? What was the purpose of this study?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the impact of Henrietta's death on Zakariyya in the narrative. How did Zakariyya feel about George Gey? Why? What helped to change Zakariyya's impressions of the scientific community? How?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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