Henrietta Lacks: Part 3

Why does Deborah hand out newsletters about Henrietta and HeLa?

• She wants to sue Johns Hopkins.

• She wants to find out the truth of what happens.

• She wants the world to know about her mother.

• She is trying to get the scientists to give up medical records.

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By the end of the book, Deborah’s brothers stopped focusing on suing Hopkins and focused more on

Henrietta’s contribution to science.

• True

• False

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Elsie's medical records were destroyed.

• True

• False

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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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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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Who was the first person in the family to find out about Henrietta's cells?

• Deborah

• Bobbette

• Zakariyah

• Lawrence

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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 

• true
• false

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Deborah would often get suspicious of Rebecca and ask her if she was getting paid for the book.

• True

• False

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Who is the Marvel character named Hela based on?

• Henrietta Lacks

• The Norse Goddess of Death

• The Greek Goddess Hera

• Hellboy's Mom

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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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