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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were HeLa cells fused with mouse cells to create the first animal-human hybrid cells?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1972.

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

3. Where did Chester Southam advertise for medical research volunteers in May of 1956?
(a) The New York Times classifieds.
(b) The Ohio State Penitentiary newsletter.
(c) Sing Sing Prison newsletter.
(d) Rutgers University newsletter.

4. On what date did the gynecologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital call and inform Henrietta Lacks that she had a malignant tumor?
(a) April 10, 1941.
(b) August 1, 1950.
(c) February 5, 1951.
(d) October 4, 1951.

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

6. What was listed as the official cause of Henrietta Lacks's death?
(a) Terminal uremia.
(b) Grand mal seizure.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Stroke.

7. How much blood did Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his friends donate when they heard Henrietta was in need of transfusions at the hospital?
(a) 10 pints.
(b) 8 pints.
(c) 5 pints.
(d) 2 pints.

8. How many people does Rebecca Skloot estimate that Chester Southam injected with living cancer cells during his career?
(a) Over 600 people.
(b) About 300 people.
(c) Over 800 people.
(d) About 200 people.

9. In what year did the term "informed consent" first appear in court documents regarding the case of patient Martin Salgo?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1962.

10. Who wrote the 1976 Rolling Stone article about the Lackses?
(a) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde.
(b) Michael Rogers.
(c) Roland Pattillo.
(d) Fred Garret.

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

12. Who was the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn in 1963?
(a) Harry Eagle.
(b) Emanuel Mandel.
(c) Ronald H. Berg.
(d) William Scherer.

13. What was Henrietta Lacks's name at birth?
(a) Loretta Pleasant.
(b) Henrietta Pleasant.
(c) Helen Lane.
(d) Wilma Anderson.

14. What extra chromosome appears in individuals with Down syndrome?
(a) Chromosome number 16.
(b) Chromosome number 21.
(c) Chromosome number 18.
(d) Chromosome number 2.

15. Who dug Henrietta's grave in Clover?
(a) Tommy and David.
(b) Walter and Jimmy.
(c) Johnny and Cootie.
(d) Fred and Cliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Deborah Lacks when she became pregnant with her first child?

2. What was the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells in 1953?

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. Who coerced Deborah to continue at an all-girls' school after she became pregnant with her first child?

5. On what date did Henrietta marry David Lacks?

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