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Which sentence from the excerpt most strongly supports the inference you can make about the author's point of view?

A) “She’s simply called HeLa, the code name given to the world’s first immortal human cells—her cells, cut from her cervix just months before she died.”

B) “I’ve spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she’d think about cells from her cervix living on forever—bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world.”

C) “One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.”

D) “All of the stories mentioned that scientists had begun doing research on Henrietta’s children, but the Lackses didn’t seem to know what that research was for.”

Answer 1

Answer: B)

“I’ve spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she’d think about cells from her cervix living on forever—bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world.”

Explanation: This sentence supports the inference that the author has a critical point of view towards the way Henrietta Lacks' cells were used without her consent. The author is expressing a sense of wonder and questioning about the life of Henrietta and what her thoughts would be on the use of her cells. The author is also implies that the cells were bought, sold, packaged and shipped without any regard to Henrietta or her family.