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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 had Deborah's son been arrested for when she called Rebecca Skloot sobbing at the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 31?
2. What did the researcher at Johns Hopkins give to Deborah as she departed in the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
3. Who came with Deborah to Johns Hopkins to see Henrietta Lacks's cells?
4. In what year did Sonny Lacks undergo quintuple bypass surgery?
5. What was the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act designed to prohibit?
Short Essay Questions
1. What legal issues arose for the Lacks descendants in 2013? How were these issues resolved?
2. What did Cousin Gary do in order to calm down Deborah in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 35?
3. What legal options does Rebecca Skloot describe for the Lacks family in the Afterword?
4. What caused Deborah Lacks anxiety after her blood sample was collected by Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 23?
5. What concerns did Deborah Lacks present to Rebecca Skloot during their first in-person meeting? What were Deborah's fears about HeLa cells and their use?
6. What did Rebecca Skloot and Deborah Lacks encounter when they first arrived at Crownsville in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 33?
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 were Deborah and Zakariyya affected by their meeting with Christoph Lengauer at Johns Hopkins?
9. Based on Skloot's statements in the Afterword, what is the likelihood that your DNA is on file somewhere? Why?
10. What agreement was made between Rebecca Skloot and Deborah Lacks regarding compensation for the publication of the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Discuss the narrative and language styles seen in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. How does the narrative shift in the course of the book? How does the dialogue in the narrative differ from the language style of the author? What literary devices are employed the most in the story?
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