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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was researcher Chester Southam the chief virologist in 1954 when he began injecting cancer patients with HeLa cells?
(a) The Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Research.
(b) Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
(c) The Harvard School of Medicine Center for Cancer Research.
(d) The MIT Center for Cancer Research.

2. When was Johns Hopkins Hospital founded?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1919.

3. What researcher at the NIH used HeLa cells to develop the first standardized culture medium that could be made by the gallon and shipped ready to use?
(a) Roland Pattillo.
(b) Harry Eagle.
(c) Charles Bynum.
(d) Roland Pattillo.

4. What nickname did Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde have at John's Hopkins in the 1950s?
(a) Bugs Bunny.
(b) Uncle Dick.
(c) Father Richard.
(d) Mussolini.

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?
(a) April 10, 1941.
(b) February 5, 1951.
(c) August 20, 1947.
(d) January 29, 1951.

6. On what date did Joe Lacks murder Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) January 29, 1972.
(b) September 15, 1970.
(c) October 4, 1951.
(d) October 4, 1969.

7. How many chromosomes are contained in a human cell?
(a) 36.
(b) 46.
(c) 42.
(d) 52.

8. On what date did Henrietta Lacks first go to Johns Hopkins to have the knot in her womb examined?
(a) October 4, 1951.
(b) February 5, 1951.
(c) April 10, 1941.
(d) January 29, 1951.

9. When did Joe Lacks turn himself into the police for the murder of Eldridge Lee Ivy?
(a) October 4, 1969.
(b) September 29, 1970.
(c) August 20, 1972.
(d) February 5, 1951.

10. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?
(a) April 10, 1941.
(b) October 4, 1951.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) January 29, 1945.

11. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?
(a) Time magazine.
(b) Science magazine.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Minneapolis Star.

12. How old was Alexis Carrel when he invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together?
(a) 39.
(b) 62.
(c) 45.
(d) 22.

13. What did Joe Lacks change his name to after he converted to Islam in prison?
(a) Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman.
(b) Andrew Robertson.
(c) Ayman al-Zawahiri.
(d) Johnny Pleasant.

14. The first time that live human cells were ever shipped via the U.S. Postal Service was when George Gey mailed HeLa cells to whom?
(a) Michael Rogers.
(b) Dr. Howard Jones.
(c) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(d) William Scherer.

15. How old was Lawrence when he an Bobbette moved in together?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 19.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Henrietta Lacks's father?

2. When was Alexis Carrel awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood-vessel-suturing technique?

3. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?

4. How old was Deborah Lacks when Rebecca Skloot first called her to talk about her mother?

5. How old was Henrietta Lacks's epileptic daughter when she died?

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