WorksheetsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Film Quiz)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
What was Henrietta Lacks's cell strand known as?
Hele
Hela
Helen
Henrietta Lacks
What disease did Henrietta contract and die from?
carcinoma
cell cancer
cranial cancer
cervical cancer
Where did Henrietta live (the town she grew up in)?
Roanoke, VA
Crownsville, MD
Clover, VA
Baltimore, MD
What is the name of the hospital that took tissue samples from Henrietta, blood samples of her kids, and experimented on random African American citizens?
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
John Sealy Hospital
St. John's Hospital
Providence St. John's Health Center
What are the names of Henrietta's kids?
Sonny, Deborah, and Zakariyya
Lawrence, Sonny, Deborah, and Zakariyya
Lawrence, Sonny, Deborah, Elsie, and Zakariyya
Lawrence, Sonny, Deborah, and Elsie
What happened to Elsie?
She died young in Clover, VA.
She was sent to Crownsville, MD, where she died young due to natural causes.
Elsie was sent to a mental institution in Maryland where she was treated poorly and died at the age of 15 in 1955.
She died at the same time her mother, Henrietta Lacks, died, in 1951.
Who wrote a book based on Henrietta's life and her cells?
Sir Lord Cofield
Lawrence Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Deborah Lacks wrote the book about her mother and gave it to Rebecca Skloot.
What are two things that Deborah was diagnosed with?
Anxiety and anger
Anxiety and cancer
Schizophrenia and paranoia
Paranoia and encephalography
What happened to Zarkariyya when he was a young boy?
He was sent to live with his grandparents.
He was whipped by his aunt.
He died at Crownsville at the age of 15.
He partook in research studies at Johns Hopkins Hospital because he needed money.
Why were Henrietta's cells called "immortal"?
They could live inside a human body for a long, long time.
They were taken without Henrietta's knowledge and used for many scientific experiments.
They could only survive outside the human body for several days, but that was longer than most!
They can be kept alive and divide over and over again outside of the human body.
True or False: Henrietta's cells have been in outer space?
True
False
True or False: The medical staff at Johns Hopkins were more interested in Henrietta as a person than her cells.
True
False
True or False: Johns Hopikins was known for "snatching" and experimenting on African Americans in Baltimore in the mid 1900s.
True
False
True or False: According to the film, Johns Hopkins denied medical treatment to a group of African American males from 1932-1972 that were diagnosed with HIV.
True
False
True or False: Deborah was able to read the book that Rebecca Skloot wrote about her mother when it was finally published in 2010.
True
False
