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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Henrietta Lacks?
(a) Dr. Wilbur.
(b) Dr. Jones.
(c) Dr. Gey.
(d) Dr. Rogers.

2. Who were Henrietta's cousins that she first told about the knot she felt in her womb, prior to her visit to the hospital?
(a) Sadie and Margaret.
(b) Cliff and Cootie.
(c) Joe and Fred.
(d) Tommy and Sarah.

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

4. Who were the business partners that owned Microbiological Associates in the 1950s?
(a) Charles Bynum and William Scherer.
(b) Dr. Richard Wesley TeLinde and George Gey.
(c) Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent.
(d) Harry Eagle and Fred Garret.

5. What best-selling book did Alexis Carrel publish that criticized an "error" in the U.S. Constitution of equality for all people?
(a) Man and Superman.
(b) Man, the Unknown.
(c) An Error of Cells.
(d) Lights Out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ethel's husband that sexually abused Deborah Lacks when she was a child?

2. Which of Henrietta Lacks's children did not attend her funeral or know she'd died, according to the author in Part Two: Death, Chapter 12?

3. When did George Papanicolaou publish a paper describing what is now known as the "Pap smear"?

4. What illness did Hector Henry suffer from during his childhood?

5. How many chromosomes are contained in a human cell?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Kubicek describe the instance when she first realized that Henrietta was "human" in Part Two: Death - Chapter 12?

2. What illness was contracted within the Lacks family after Henrietta's death? How were they affected by this illness?

3. How did Lawrence Lacks deal with the death of his mother? What led Lawrence into the military?

4. Who is Roland Pattillo, and why did Rebecca Skloot contact him regarding the Lacks family? How did Pattillo respond to Rebecca's inquiries?

5. How does the author describe Courtney Speed in the narrative? What business(es) did Ms. Speed run at the time the author first met her?

6. How does the author describe the actions of Ethel and Galen in the narrative? What relationship did Ethel and Galen have to the Lackses?

7. What was the objective for Dr. Richard TeLinde in using cancer cells and samples from Howard Jones in his research?

8. How were tissue samples obtained following Henrietta Lacks's death? Why were they obtained?

9. What led up to Joe Lacks's imprisonment for second-degree murder?

10. How is Henrietta Lacks's funeral described in Part Two: Death? Who attended Henrietta's funeral? Where was she buried?

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