The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks True or False

1. What did Chester Southam inject into patients in his most famous experiments? -> Saline
2. The Tuskegee syphilis studies -> infected healthy black men with syphilis and withheld penicillin to cure syphilis.
3. Skloot refers to "Mississippi Appendectomies." What are these? -> Forced tummy tucks
4. When George Gey learned that doctors didn't take a sample of his cancer cells to create an immortal cell line, what does he do to help science? -> Donates his body to science
5. When McKusick sends his assistant to collect blood samples from the Lacks family, what do they think he wants it for? -> To get more HeLa cells

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