Henrietta Lacks: End of Novel - Part III

Chapter 35: After witnessing the amount of physical and emotional anguish that Deborah is in, Gary begins to preach and lay hands on Deborah. What burden does he ask to be lifted from Deborah? Where does he ask the burden to be placed?

• She felt release after the prayers. (Page 293)
• He was talking about the burden of the cells, and he said the burden had to be place on Miss Rebecca.(Page 293

Deborah decides to go through the medical records with Skloot, but she still hasn't calmed down from the upsetting day at Crownsville.Deborah doesn't trust anyone with Henrietta's medical record. She won't let Skloot photocopy it, so she walks away from the meeting 

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Skloot makes the disastrous suggestion that Deborah ought to get another copy of Henrietta's medical record because the one she had is so disorganized and scattered.

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The literary device exhibited here in Zakariyya’s statement: “We can’t even to see a doctor cause we can’t afford it.  Only people that can get any good from my mother cells is the people that got money…” is a...

• metaphor
• simile
• euphemism

She finds a term that she doesn't want Skloot to put in the book (and she doesn't), but Skloot gives her a smile at the same time. She's smiling because she thinks 

• Deborah's protectiveness of her mother is sweet.
• She understands that Deborah has a reason not to trust the media.

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The "Hospital for the Negro Insane" is no longer the facility it had been in Elsie's time. Now it's a  Most of the records from the '50s have been buried

• multipurpose building.
• a abandoned building
• a medical lab

There were two studies done on the brains of patients, and it seemed as if Elsie would have been a subject in both because of her .

• erratic behavior
• epilepsy
• learning dissorder

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Although Deborah's made peace with Hopkins, she still has to... 

• Speak with the Lacks Foundation concerning pending legal charges against the hospital
• face Crownsville and the possible horrors faced by her older sister Elsie.

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The hives continue to spread as Deborah and Skloot get to ______. Deborah takes Benadryl to control them, but it doesn't seem to be working

• Baltimore
• Turner Station
• Clover

Skloot explains the emotional journey they're on in chapter 35 and we learn that she and _________ had spoken many times over the years. She knows that this person  is close to Deborah and understands her pain

• Bobette
• Gary
• David Jr.
• Howard