The Hela Factory from the Inmortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

1. What is the central idea of “The HeLa Factory”?

• a. Rapidly reproducing cells such as HeLa cells are unusual but may help fight diseases.

• b.- Cells were wrongly taken from Henrietta Lacks’ body and used without her or her family’s permission.

• c.- Cells were wrongly taken from Henrietta Lacks’ body and used without her or her family’s permission.

• a. Cells were wrongly taken from Henrietta Lacks’ body and used without her or her family’s permission.

2.- Which excerpt from “The HeLa Factory” develops the author’s central idea?

• a. Salk would inoculate 2 million children and the NFIP would test their blood to see if they’d become immune.

• b.- Salk would inoculate 2 million children and the NFIP would test their blood to see if they’d become immune.

• c. In just a few months, a staff of six black scientists and technicians built a factory at Tuskegee unlike any seen before.

• d. Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white.

3. Read the excerpt from “The HeLa Factory.”

Bynum—a science teacher and civil rights activist who was the first black foundation executive in the country—wanted the center to be located at Tuskegee because it would provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding, many jobs, and training opportunities for young black scientists.

How does this detail develop the selection’s central idea?

• a. It summarizes an opposing argument.

• b. It describes the mass production of HeLa cells.

• c. It provides expert opinion about the Tuskegee factory.

• d. It provides expert opinion about the Tuskegee factory.

4. What is the central idea of “Cells”?

• a. Even the small things in life can have great importance.

• b. Even the small things in life can have great importance.

• c. A botanist is credited with first observing a cell’s nucleus.

• d. Understanding cells at the microscopic level leads to valuable insights.

5. Which excerpt from “Cells” develops the idea of cells’ resiliency?

• a. Which excerpt from “Cells” develops the idea of cells’ resiliency?

• b. When cells are no longer needed, they die with what can only be called great dignity.

• c. On average, humans suffer one fatal malignancy for each 100 million billion cell divisions

• d. The wonder of cells is not that things occasionally go wrong, but that they manage everything so smoothly for decades at a stretch.

6. What technique does the author of “Cells” use in the following sentence to develop the idea that the inside of a cell is full of activity?

Within it, millions upon millions of objects—some the size of basketballs, others the size of cars—would whiz about like bullets.

• a. He uses a dash to signal a change in his train of thought.

• b. He uses a dash to signal a change in his train of thought.

• c. He uses a dash to signal a change in his train of thought.

• d. He uses figurative language to help readers imagine the cell.

7. Which statement BEST explains when to use a dictionary and when to use a glossary?

• a. Which statement BEST explains when to use a dictionary and when to use a glossary?

• b. Use a dictionary to learn a word’s part of speech; use a glossary to learn a word’s origin or history.

• c. Use a dictionary to understand how a word is used in a specific reference work; use a glossary to find where the word appears in a book.

• d. Use a dictionary to learn how to pronounce a word; use a glossary to see examples of the word used in a sentence.

8. Jenny came across the word malignancy in a book about diseases. She should look it up in the glossary if

• a. Jenny came across the word malignancy in a book about diseases. She should look it up in the glossary if

• b. Jenny came across the word malignancy in a book about diseases. She should look it up in the glossary if

• c. she wants to understand how it relates to cancer.

• d. she wants to find out where else it appears in the book.