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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 did the researcher at Johns Hopkins give to Deborah as she departed in the end of Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
(a) His cell phone number.
(b) An autographed picture.
(c) A book about HeLa cells.
(d) A vial of HeLa cells.

2. Who is described in the Afterword as "the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who used Ted Slavin's antibodies for hepatitis B research"?
(a) Baruch Blumberg.
(b) Judith Greenburg.
(c) Christoph Lengauer.
(d) Howard Jones.

3. Who was the judge that oversaw John Moore's initial case against UCLA?
(a) Judge Howard Jones.
(b) Judge Joseph Wapner.
(c) Judge Emanuel Mandel.
(d) Judge Henry Beecher.

4. In what year did Deborah Lacks separate from her husband and move into an assisted-living apartment of her own, according to the author in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 38?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2004.

5. What example does the author give in the Afterword of a corporation that pays the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center and others undisclosed amounts of money for exclusive access to tissues collected from their patients?
(a) GlaxoSmithKline.
(b) Novartis.
(c) Ardais.
(d) Pfizer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the young Johns Hopkins researcher that sent a gift to Deborah Lacks by way of Rebecca Skloot when Rebecca met Deborah for the first time?

2. Who is the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt that the author cites in the Afterword?

3. Who was the president of the National Foundation for Cancer Research in 2001?

4. What is the name of Deborah Lacks's daughter?

5. How many years in prison did Zakariyya serve of his sentence before he was released for his second-degree murder conviction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author describe her meeting with Zakariyya in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 30?

3. How did the members of the Lacks family respond to the new found fame they received on Henrietta's behalf in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 28?

4. What treatment did John Moore receive from the medical center at UCLA?

5. 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?

6. What agreement was made between Rebecca Skloot and Deborah Lacks regarding compensation for the publication of the book?

7. What caused Deborah Lacks anxiety after her blood sample was collected by Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 23?

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

9. Based on Skloot's statements in the Afterword, what is the likelihood that your DNA is on file somewhere? Why?

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

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