The Immortal Life of HeLa N.2

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.

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

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

• getting Deborah to overcome trust issues with Skloot.

"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 on page 22 and is an example of..

• climax

• irony

• allusion

• foreshadowing

Which of the following is NOT a simile?

• "For Henrietta, walking into Hopkins was like entering a foreign country where she didn't speak the language"

• "When most Lackses talked about Henrietta and Day and their early life in Clover, it sounded as idylllic as a fairy tale"

• "Researchers were breathing in the air around HeLa cells, touching them and transferring them from vial to vial, even eating lunch at lab tables besides them"

• "Like guinea pigs and mice, Henrietta's cells have become the standard laboratory workhorse"

But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense."

The above is an example of which rhetorical strategy?

• allusion

• irony

• personfication

• ethos

what is name of the scientist that was the 1st to publish Henrietta's name?

• Franklin salisbury jr.

• Lawrence Lacks

• Davon Meade

• Victor McKusick

Who was one of the people that wanted to test the Lacks' family, to find out Henrietta's HLA makers were?

• Susan Hsu

• Sadie Hsu

• Robert Chang

• all of them

How did Michael Rogers first learn about HeLa cells contamination and find it to be a great story?

• He learned it from "Helen Lane lives"

• An article about genetics.

Why did George Gey and John Hopkins not make any money off HeLa cells?

• He never had the opportunity to patent HeLa cells.

• He never patented the cells and ran his lab for free.

What did Deborah struggle to understand about the Newsweek Article called People -Plants that crossed her cells with tobacco cells that terrified her more about HeLa

• Deborah thought the article was about people using the HeLa cell as a drug

• Deborah thought they created a human-plant monster that was half her mother and half tobacco

What is it about Henrietta’s body that really stands out to Gey’s assistant Mary?

• Her tiny size

• Her chipped toenail polish

• Her obvious beauty

• Her massive tumor