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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. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court rule on the case of Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1989.

2. Who is the director of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Lab oratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, cited by the author in the Afterword?
(a) Christoph Lengauer.
(b) Baruch Blumberg.
(c) Judith Greenburg.
(d) Wayne Grody.

3. Who was the renowned geneticist that founded the world's first human genetics department at Johns Hopkins?
(a) Charles Bynum.
(b) Victor McKusick.
(c) William Scherer.
(d) George Gey.

4. How did Deborah describe Cootie's death to Rebecca in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 38?
(a) He shot himself.
(b) He was hit by a car.
(c) He died from cancer.
(d) He was killed in prison.

5. Who did a fireman say saved Deborah's life by slapping her to keep her awake after she'd had a stroke in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 37?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Davon.
(c) Cootie.
(d) Cliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission issue a report saying that federal oversight of tissue research was "inadequate" and "ambiguous"?

2. Why did Paul Lurz say that the earlier records from Crownville Hospital Center had been destroyed?

3. In what year did Deborah Lacks marry James Pullum?

4. Rebecca Skloot states in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 24 that a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database shows how many patents involving HeLa cells?

5. What were the names of Deborah's grandsons who came along when Deborah took Rebecca Skloot to meet Zakariyya?

Short Essay Questions

1. What statement did Susan Hsu make about her interactions with the Lacks family when she was interviewed by Rebecca Skloot?

2. What information did Rebecca and Deborah discover about Elsie and the conditions she lived in at Crownsville in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 33?

3. What did Deborah discover during her visit to her doctor after she returned from her research travels with Rebecca Skloot in 2001?

4. When did Deborah Lacks die? What is significant about the timing of her death in Rebecca Skloot's narrative?

5. How effective do you think Rebecca Skloot was in giving a voice to the Lacks family in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?

6. How were Deborah and Zakariyya affected by their meeting with Christoph Lengauer at Johns Hopkins?

7. What gift did Rebecca Skloot give to Deborah Lacks when she first met her in person? How did Deborah respond?

8. What did Cousin Gary do in order to calm down Deborah in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 35?

9. What legal issues arose for the Lacks descendants in 2013? How were these issues resolved?

10. How does Rebecca Skloot describe the financial gains of George and Margaret Gey as a result of the cultivation of HeLa cells?

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