The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Quizzes

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Quiz 1

1 Who was Henrietta Lacks?
A Black woman from an impoverished Southern family

A white cancer patient living in Seattle

A journalist

A scientist
2 Who does Rebecca Skloot keep a photo of on her wall?
Henrietta Lacks

Rosalind Franklin

Her daughter

Howard Jones
3 What is the scientific importance of the HeLa cells?
They proved the existence of evolution

They have provided the basis for many medical advances in the 20th century

They allowed scientists to create clones

They helped us to cure cancer
4 Where did Rebecca Skloot first hear about Henrietta Lacks?
In elementary school

In a textbook

Henrietta's daughter Deborah is one of her patients

In a college biology class
5 What observation does Rebecca's biology teacher make about Henrietta Lacks?
She was a first-century Roman

No one knows anything about her

She was a Black woman

She was a famous scientist
6 What does Rebecca Skloot learn about Henrietta?
She is a research scientist

Her family did not consent to her cells being used for research

She is living in San Francisco

Her family made millions off her cells being used for research
7 Who is Deborah?
Rebecca's editor

Henrietta's youngest daughter

Rebecca's childhood best friend

Henrietta's oldest daughter
8 What do doctors do when Deborah tells them that she's the daughter of Henrietta Lacks?
Tell her that she is a liar

Give her free treatment

Give her a discount on medical treatment

Exclaim over the contributions that her mother's cells made to science
9 What does Deborah want?
To get 50% of the profits from the HeLa cell line

To know who her mother is

To become a doctor

To get revenge on the doctor who took Henrietta's cells without permission
10 How many siblings did Henrietta have?
Four

Nine

Two

None
11 What did Henrietta do during her childhood?
Took care of farm animals and harvested crops

Raised rabbits

Travelled with a circus

Received a quality education from private tutors
12 How did "Crazy" Joe earn his nickname?
He was paranoid and violent

He tried to kill himself when Henrietta rejected him

He was an excellent and daring driver

He talked to himself constantly
13 Who does Henrietta marry?
Martin Skloot

Howard Jones

David "Day" Lacks

"Crazy" Joe Grinnan
14 Who is Henrietta's oldest child?
Lawrence

Joseph

Lucile

Deborah
15 What does “Crazy” Joe do when he hears that Henrietta has married?
Goes on a date with her sister Gladys

Stabs himself in the chest with a pocketknife

Tries to kill Day

Runs away to Boston
16 Why does Day move to Baltimore?
To escape racism

To get away from "Crazy" Joe

To be closer to his mistress

To get a job at a steel mill
17 What did most doctors during the 1950s think about carcinoma in situ?
It wasn't serious and didn't require treatment

It was a bacterial infection

It was totally normal

It was extremely serious and required immediate treatment
18 What did TeLinde believe about carcinoma in situ?
It was a bacterial infection

It wasn't serious and didn't require treatment

It was totally normal

It was extremely serious and required immediate treatment
19 What is Gey's most important invention?
A machine that can deliver targeted doses of radiation to a patient's body

The microscope

The printing press

A rolling drum that keeps cell culture in constant motion
20 What is the primary scientific goal of the Geys?
To cure cancer

To develop a cell line that will stay alive in culture

To create a heart that will function outside of a body for organ transplant purposes

To prove that Blacks are inferior
21 Who is described as the only person who dislikes Henrietta?
Her daughter Deborah

Her son Lawrence

Her mother Loretta

Ethel, her cousin's wife
22 Who does Henrietta first inform about her cancer?
Her cousin "Crazy" Joe Grinnan

Her cousins Margaret and Sadie

Her children Lawrence and Deborah

Her husband Day
23 How does Henrietta react when she is told that she is infertile after her treatments?
She says the nurse told her already

She is pleased because she didn't want any more children

She says that this is a sad but unexpected side effect

She is horrified and says she wouldn't have gone through with it if she knew
24 What is NOT one of the examples of discrimination against African-Americans in science that Rebecca Skloot mentions to Roland Pallilo
The lack of funding for sickle cell anemia

The Mississippi Appendectomies

Harvard Medical School's denial of admissions to Black candidates until 1968

The Tuskegee Syphilis study
25 How does Day react to Rebecca at first?
He welcomes her to the family home

He asks if he knew her from somewhere

He snaps at her

He says he will have to ask permission to talk to her from the women in his family

How old are Henrietta lacks'cells now , as of 2013

I think around 62 years old.

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Answered by Aslan on 10/9/2018 6:19 PM

When Deborah finally decides to give Skloot access to Henrietta's medical records it is a significant moments. Explain why this is an important moment both for Deborah and for Skloot.

Deborah feels possessive of Henrietta's records because they're all she has left of her mother—a tragic but understandable confession. Allowing Skloot access gives some amount of liberation as well as the feeling that her mother's life had not...

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Informed Consent

“Informed consent” means that patients must be informed of a doctor’s or lab’s intentions relative to the use of their tissue, blood, or cells.

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