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WorksheetsHenrietta Lacks: End of Novel - Part III
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 1hrs 24mins
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Class
Date
1.
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?
a)
She felt release after the prayers. (Page 293)
b)
He was talking about the burden of the cells, and he said the burden had to be place on Miss Rebecca.(Page 293
2.
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
a)
true
b)
false
3.
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.
a)
true
b)
false
4.
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...
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
euphemism
5.
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
a)
Deborah's protectiveness of her mother is sweet.
b)
She understands that Deborah has a reason not to trust the media.
6.
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
a)
multipurpose building.
b)
a abandoned building
c)
a medical lab
7.
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 .
a)
erratic behavior
b)
epilepsy
c)
learning dissorder
8.
Although Deborah's made peace with Hopkins, she still has to...
a)
Speak with the Lacks Foundation concerning pending legal charges against the hospital
b)
face Crownsville and the possible horrors faced by her older sister Elsie.
9.
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
a)
Baltimore
b)
Turner Station
c)
Clover
10.
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
a)
Bobette
b)
Gary
c)
David Jr.
d)
Howard
11.
Gary talks to her about the immortality he believes that Christ gives, and he gives her a bible verse to read out loud .
a)
Matthew 5:15
b)
John 11:25
12.
In chapter 36, Gary explains to Skloot that the HeLa cells are Henrietta's spiritual or heavenly body. This is her form of resurrection, just as the bible promised. What literary device is this?
a)
symbolim
b)
extended metaphor
c)
cesura
13.
In chapter 37, we learn that Deborah isn't just suffering from hives. She has extremely high blood pressure and high blood sugar. She'd almost had a stroke from the stress of learning about her sister Elsie's life and death at Crownsville. Now she has to rest. So Skloot ...
a)
only talks to her after the book is published
b)
only tells her the positive stuff that she learned in her research.
14.
Deborah's was also supposed to give a speech at the:
a)
NAACP rally
b)
National Foundation for Cancer Research conference.
c)
Million Man March
d)
Turner Station Day parade
15.
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?
a)
Then September 11th happens.
b)
John Hopkins files an injunction
c)
Alfred is arrested
16.
In chapter 38, Skloot returns to Clover and realizes that the town is gone, gone, gone. Nothing's left except:
a)
the hospital
b)
the post office
c)
the old library
d)
the Hospital for the Negro Insane
17.
Deborah's brother Sonny has to have a and winds up heavily in debt from the surgery. Skloot points out the irony of Henrietta's son having no health insurance
a)
cancer treatments
b)
quintuple bypass
c)
physical therapy for stress from his Army wound
18.
Skloot then learns from Sonny that Deborah died of a __________ just after Mother's Day
a)
diabetes
b)
heart attack
c)
stroke
19.
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
a)
BBC documentary
b)
HeLA documentary
c)
Henrietta Lacks tribute
20.
Keenan Kester Cofield was a con artist who wanted to sue Hopkins because
a)
He accused them of malpractice
b)
He was refused access to Henrietta's medical record
c)
The Hospital owed him money
d)
Well, he was a con artist.
21.
What's the name of the white cancer patient who sued his doctor over the creation of a lucrative immortal cell line from his tissue?
a)
John Moore
b)
George Gey
c)
The Marlboro Man
d)
Victor McKusick
22.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
a)
Cryptography used in World War II
b)
Set of rules for members of the Third Reich
c)
011+49+911
d)
Research ethics for scientists who use human subjects
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