Henrietta Lacks and Grammar Quiz

quiz on april 8! 20 questions! no books allowed

What is the name of the scientist who found the first immortal cells?

George Gey

Who was Elsie?

Henrietta’s second child, first daughter; she was institutionalized for her mental disability

How many siblings does Henrietta have?

Six

What is Joe’s new name?

Zakariyya Abdul Rahman

Who is Michael Rogers?

A Rolling Stone author who published the article that publicized HeLa’s real name, Henrietta Lacks

Where did Rebecca Skloot first learn about Henrietta Lacks?

In her college biology class

In which 2 places did Henrietta live?

Clover and Baltimore (Turner Station)

What do doctors do when Deborah tells them that she’s Henrietta’s daughter?

They get excited and explain how HeLa cells shaped science

What did the doctors originally think the tumor was?

A sore from syphilis

What did Henrietta’s children think they were being tested for? What were they actually tested for?

Screening for cancer; actually to research their DNA

Who were Henrietta’s kids?

Lawrence, Elsie, David, Deborah, and Zakariyya (5)

Who was David?

Also known as Day, Henrietta’s husband and cousin; they had 5 kids

Eliza Lacks Pleasant

Henrietta’s mother

Gladys Lacks

Henrietta’s sister (disapproved of Day)

Deborah Lacks

Fourth child of Henrietta; closest to author; divorced from Cheetah Carter because he was abusive; had 2 children, Alfred Jr and LaTonya; abused by Galen in childhood; grandson Little Alfred

Bobette

Lawrence’s wife; helped raise the Lacks children when Henrietta died; helped them when she discovered they were being abused by Ethel and Galen

George Gey

The head of tissue culture research at Johns Hopkins who first discovered HeLa cells’ immortality; developed techniques for growing them in his lab; assistant was Mary Kubicek

Howard Jones

Henrietta’s gynecologist at Johns Hopkins who first sampled the tumor

Richard Weasley TeLinde

A top cervical cancer expect who took tissue samples from Henrietta and other cervical cancer patients unethically

Courtney Speed

Turner Station resident who owns a grocery store; wanted to establish a Henrietta Lacks museum

John Moore and Ted Slavin

patients who had their cells removed without permission, though Moore failed and Slavin profitted when suing

Michael Gold

author of A Conspiracy of Cells; published Henrietta’s medical records and autopsy report without Lacks family permission

Proper way to paranthetical

(Author last name page number).

Proper noun

a name for a person, place, or organization; capitalized

What grammatical term is present in parallelism?

Conjunction (FANBOYS)

Semicolons

;
Used to combine independent clauses without a conjunction
Next weekend, I plan to go hiking; hiking is one of my favorite activities.

Conjunction

FANBOYS; For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Colon

:
Introduces two points directly related to each other; can be used to list items or introduce quotes
I have to buy: milk, cheese, and lettuce.
Every year, my mom gives me the same advice on the first day of school: “You can do it.”

Dangling Modifiers

A word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence; subject is unclear!
After writing, the dogs went for a walk is a dangling modifier
We want: After writing, she went on a walk with the dogs.

Parallel Structure

When the verbs are all in the same tense
She likes to go jogging, reading, and cooking.
The dog always lays and basks in the sun.

Active

Tells us what a person or thing does
Subject + Verb + Object
The dog chased the cat

Passive

Tells us what is done to someone or something

Object + Verb + Subject
The cat was chased by the dog

Power and Justice Theme

Doctors abused power, Ethel and Galen abused the children; Cheetah abused Deborah; Johns Hopkins abused their authority

Historical trauma and resilience

Deborah got hives, family got trauma; never knew about HeLa until family friend called them up

Most Vulnerable

Doctors kept information from patients. especially African Americans, and they were blindly trusted. Took advantage of Henrietta’s and many others’s conditions to get cell samples; uninformed consent; uneducated Lacks family was taken advantage of

Criminal Justice System

Abusers never prosecuted; Cofield the “lawyer” lied to the Lacks’s; Zakariyya committed and murder and spent time in jail