The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

What is the genre of the the book?

• creative nonfiction

• historical fiction

• medical journalism

• both A and C

What is the point of view?

• only first person

• only third person

• second person

• first person and third person

How would you describe the overall tone of the text?

• judgemental

• critical

• unbiased and objective

• sentimental

Which is the following is NOT a conflict of the text?

• Skloot and Deborah's struggle to uncover the truth about Hennie's final months

• Skloot's inability to finance the book on her own

• the injustice of the predominately white medical system toward improverished black patients through the 20th century

• getting Deborah to overcome trust issues with Skloot

what is the climax of the book?

• when Skloot visits Zakiyirrah in his assisted living facility and he reads one of her articles

• when Henrietta dies and her family buries her in Clover amidst a strong storm

• when Deborah, Zakriyya, and Skllot visit Lengauer's lab and see Henrietta's cells for the first time

• When George Gey offers HeLa cells to his colleagues for free

"I couldn't have imagined it then, but that phone call would mark the beginning of a decades-long adventure through scientific laboratories, hospitals, and mental institutions, with a cast of characters that would include Nobel laureates, grocery store clerks, convicted felons, and a professional con artist."

This quote was page 22 and is an example of

• climax

• foreshadowing

• irony

• allusion

• imagery

"Henrietta died at 12:15 a.m. on October 4, 1951." (page 138).

The above is an example of which rhetorical strategy?

• hyperbole

• allusion

• imagery

• personification

• understatement

On page 338, Gary (a cousin of Deborah and a lay preacher) tells Deborah that people only have to believe in Jesus and they will receive immortal life. He believes that this is what has happened to Henrietta. This is a reference to John 11:25: "Jesus said to her: 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies.'"

The above is an example of which rhetorical strategy?

• allusion

• imagery

• diction

• personfication

"Another scientists calculated that if you could lay all HeLa cells ever grown end-to-end, they'd wrap around the Earth at least three times, spanning more than 350 million feet. In her prime, Henrietta herself stood only a bit over five feet tall." (14)

The above is an example of which rhetorical strategy?

• allusion

• hyperbole

• personification

• juxtaposition

• irony

One tragic example of ____________ in the text is the early deaths of both Henrietta and her mother. both women die young and leave behind children who desperately seek to understand their mother's legacy.

• allusion

• parallelism

• contradiction

• argument

• metaphor