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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 Paul Lurz's position at Crownsville Hospital Center when Deborah and Rebecca visited in search of past records?
2. Where did Rebecca and Deborah go after leaving Crownsville to look for more medical records on Elsie in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 33?
3. 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?
4. Who was the cancer researcher at UCLA that removed John Moore's spleen?
5. Who is the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt that the author cites in the Afterword?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information did Rebecca and Deborah discover about Elsie and the conditions she lived in at Crownsville in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 33?
2. Based on Skloot's statements in the Afterword, what is the likelihood that your DNA is on file somewhere? Why?
3. What caused Deborah Lacks anxiety after her blood sample was collected by Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 23?
4. What gift did Rebecca Skloot give to Deborah Lacks when she first met her in person? How did Deborah respond?
5. How does the author describe the development of tissue research today? What are tissue samples used for?
6. How were Deborah and Zakariyya affected by their meeting with Christoph Lengauer at Johns Hopkins?
7. How did Deborah's behavior change after her visit to Crownsville with Rebecca?
8. 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?
9. How does Rebecca Skloot describe the financial gains of George and Margaret Gey as a result of the cultivation of HeLa cells?
10. What treatment did John Moore receive from the medical center at UCLA?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Henrietta Lacks's diagnosis, treatment, and death. What type of cancer was Henrietta diagnosed with? What treatment was available for this type of cancer at the time? How would Henrietta's treatment have differed today?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss some of the beliefs that African Americans have had historically about doctors, research, and hospitals. What was the basis of these beliefs? What evidence is there that there was truth to some of these beliefs?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the impact of the Rolling Stones article that focused on the Lacks family in the 1970s. How did this article impact the family? How did Americans respond to the article? Why?
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