2. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?
(a) Inflicting pain.
(b) Detecting a heartbeat.
(c) Detecting breathing.
(d) Measuring brain activity.

3. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?
(a) Gas.
(b) Polymer.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Acetone.

4. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?
(a) A great number of conditions are stress related.
(b) The placebo effect.
(c) Maladies go away on their own.
(d) Many cures included alcohol, which has a salutary effect.

5. Where did blood or body parts come from when they were sold for medicinal purposes?
(a) Convicts.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Family members.

6. How did Barbet test his theory?
(a) By hanging weights on cadavers on crosses.
(b) By strapping volunteers to crosses.
(c) By laying Shrouds over a number of cadavers.
(d) By crucifying a cadaver.

7. What does Mary Roach decide about disposing of her remains?
(a) She wants to be plastinated.
(b) She wants to be buried without embalming.
(c) She wants to be cremated.
(d) It is not up to her.

8. What almost prevented cremation from getting off the ground?
(a) The sense of secularism.
(b) Ties to Catholicism.
(c) The personalities of the people who ran it.
(d) Laws governing disposal of human remains.

9. What was surprise supposed to have done to a body before death?
(a) Concentrate the spirits.
(b) Drive out demons.
(c) Activate the spirit.
(d) Purge the spirit.

10. When were mummies used medicinally?
(a) 8th - 6th centuries BCE.
(b) 16th - 18th centuries AD.
(c) 8th - 12th centuries AD.
(d) 4th - 8th centuries AD.

11. Which mummies were supposed to be best?
(a) Bodies that died violently.
(b) Bodies of philosopher kings.
(c) Bodies that died suddenly.
(d) Bodies that died peacefully.

12. What did Frederick Zugibe test?
(a) The ability of the wrist or hand to support a person's weight.
(b) The ability of crucified people to move.
(c) The stains a crucified person will make on a shroud.
(d) The chemistry of the Shroud of Turin.

13. What does Mary Roach say she would hope to become, if she donated her body to science?
(a) A teaching sample for students learning about cancer.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A subject in ballistics tests.
(d) A subject in land mine mitigation studies.

14. When did McDougal perform his experiments?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1907.

15. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?
(a) That the stains were not authentic.
(b) That the Shroud was a forgery.
(c) That the second stream was from washing a wound.
(d) That the original stream was not from Christ repositioning himself.