Henrietta Lacks: Part 3

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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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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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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A conference was going to be held in Washington, D.C. Deborah is scared by the chaos.She's also upset because the Henrietta Lacks conference was cancelled and not rescheduled. Why?

• Then September 11th happens.
• John Hopkins files an injunction
• Alfred is arrested

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In chapter 38, Skloot returns to Clover and realizes that the town is gone, gone, gone. Nothing's left except:

• the hospital
•  the post office
• the old library
• the Hospital for the Negro Insane

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Deborah's brother Sonny has to have a and winds up heavily in debt from ________ surgery. Skloot points out the irony of Henrietta's son having no health insurance.

• cancer treatments

• quintuple bypass

• physical therapy for stress from his Army wound

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Skloot then learns from Sonny that Deborah died of a __________ just after Mother's Day

• diabetes
• heart attack
• stroke

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Skloot remembers spending time with Deborah and Davon in Deborah's apartment, watching her favorite movies with her.She recalls watching the __________ with Deborah, and seeing the moment when Deborah talked about touching Henrietta's lock of hair, which she kept in her bible

• BBC documentary
• HeLA documentary
• Henrietta Lacks tribute

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