The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Quizzes

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Quiz 1

1 Who was Henrietta Lacks?
A white cancer patient living in Seattle

A scientist

A Black woman from an impoverished Southern family

A journalist
2 Who does Rebecca Skloot keep a photo of on her wall?
Rosalind Franklin

Howard Jones

Henrietta Lacks

Her daughter
3 What is the scientific importance of the HeLa cells?
They helped us to cure cancer

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

They allowed scientists to create clones

They proved the existence of evolution
4 Where did Rebecca Skloot first hear about Henrietta Lacks?
In a college biology class

Henrietta's daughter Deborah is one of her patients

In elementary school

In a textbook
5 What observation does Rebecca's biology teacher make about Henrietta Lacks?
She was a famous scientist

No one knows anything about her

She was a Black woman

She was a first-century Roman
6 What does Rebecca Skloot learn about Henrietta?
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

She is a research scientist
7 Who is Deborah?
Henrietta's oldest daughter

Rebecca's childhood best friend

Rebecca's editor

Henrietta's youngest daughter
8 What do doctors do when Deborah tells them that she's the daughter of Henrietta Lacks?
Exclaim over the contributions that her mother's cells made to science

Give her free treatment

Tell her that she is a liar

Give her a discount on medical treatment
9 What does Deborah want?
To get revenge on the doctor who took Henrietta's cells without permission

To know who her mother is

To get 50% of the profits from the HeLa cell line

To become a doctor
10 How many siblings did Henrietta have?
Four

None

Two

Nine
11 What did Henrietta do during her childhood?
Raised rabbits

Received a quality education from private tutors

Took care of farm animals and harvested crops

Travelled with a circus
12 How did "Crazy" Joe earn his nickname?
He was paranoid and violent

He was an excellent and daring driver

He tried to kill himself when Henrietta rejected him

He talked to himself constantly
13 Who does Henrietta marry?
David "Day" Lacks

Howard Jones

"Crazy" Joe Grinnan

Martin Skloot
14 Who is Henrietta's oldest child?
Joseph

Deborah

Lucile

Lawrence
15 What does “Crazy” Joe do when he hears that Henrietta has married?
Runs away to Boston

Tries to kill Day

Stabs himself in the chest with a pocketknife

Goes on a date with her sister Gladys
16 Why does Day move to Baltimore?
To get a job at a steel mill

To escape racism

To get away from "Crazy" Joe

To be closer to his mistress
17 What did most doctors during the 1950s think about carcinoma in situ?
It was totally normal

It was extremely serious and required immediate treatment

It was a bacterial infection

It wasn't serious and didn't require treatment
18 What did TeLinde believe about carcinoma in situ?
It wasn't serious and didn't require treatment

It was a bacterial infection

It was extremely serious and required immediate treatment

It was totally normal
19 What is Gey's most important invention?
A machine that can deliver targeted doses of radiation to a patient's body

The printing press

The microscope

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 prove that Blacks are inferior

To create a heart that will function outside of a body for organ transplant purposes
21 Who is described as the only person who dislikes Henrietta?
Her son Lawrence

Her daughter Deborah

Ethel, her cousin's wife

Her mother Loretta
22 Who does Henrietta first inform about her cancer?
Her children Lawrence and Deborah

Her cousin "Crazy" Joe Grinnan

Her husband Day

Her cousins Margaret and Sadie
23 How does Henrietta react when she is told that she is infertile after her treatments?
She is horrified and says she wouldn't have gone through with it if she knew

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
24 What is NOT one of the examples of discrimination against African-Americans in science that Rebecca Skloot mentions to Roland Pallilo
The Tuskegee Syphilis study

The lack of funding for sickle cell anemia

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

The Mississippi Appendectomies
25 How does Day react to Rebecca at first?
He snaps at her

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

He asks if he knew her from somewhere

He welcomes her to the family home

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

I think around 62 years old.

Asked by Ty E #828277

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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