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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Deborah took Rebecca Skloot to meet her brother Zakariyya, she reminded her that she should never make the mistake of calling him by what name?
2. In what year did Sonny Lacks undergo quintuple bypass surgery?
3. 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?
4. What is the name of Deborah Lacks's daughter?
5. What color were the HeLa cells tinted that Deborah observed at Johns Hopkins in Part Three: Immortality, Chapter 32?
Short Essay Questions
1. What factors contributed to the Lacks family's distrust of Rebecca and of the scientific community?
2. How effective do you think Rebecca Skloot was in giving a voice to the Lacks family in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
3. What statement does Rebecca Skloot make about the legality of Johns Hopkins' actions in Henrietta's case in the Afterword?
4. How does the author describe John Moore's illness in Part Three: Immortality – Chapter 25? When did Moore first get sick?
5. When did Deborah Lacks die? What is significant about the timing of her death in Rebecca Skloot's narrative?
6. How does the author describe the development of tissue research today? What are tissue samples used for?
7. What gift did Rebecca Skloot give to Deborah Lacks when she first met her in person? How did Deborah respond?
8. How were Deborah and Zakariyya affected by their meeting with Christoph Lengauer at Johns Hopkins?
9. What did Deborah discover during her visit to her doctor after she returned from her research travels with Rebecca Skloot in 2001?
10. How does Rebecca Skloot describe the financial gains of George and Margaret Gey as a result of the cultivation of HeLa cells?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Henrietta Lacks's diagnosis, treatment, and death. What type of cancer was Henrietta diagnosed with? What treatment was available for this type of cancer at the time? How would Henrietta's treatment have differed today?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the controversy surrounding contamination of HeLa cells. Who made this discovery? What did this discovery lead to in terms of further research?
Essay Topic 3
When and where was the HeLa Factory established? What was its mission? Who was behind its development? What is the status of the HeLa Factory today?
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