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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the surgeon use to open H's chest?
(a) A cauterizing wand.
(b) A knife.
(c) A saw.
(d) A laser.

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

3. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?
(a) When advised to eat excrement.
(b) When advised to eat their own flesh.
(c) When advised to use ancestors for medicines.
(d) When advised to be bled.

4. Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?
(a) The Chinese Materia Medica.
(b) The Bible.
(c) The Book of the Dead.
(d) The Old Testament.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long until a mellified man can be put to use?

2. What are brains in brain banks kept in?

3. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?

4. What does Mary Roach decide about disposing of her remains?

5. What was Mary Roach dismayed to find out about brains in the brain bank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What test did French physician Brown-Sequard perform?

2. What is plastination?

3. What does Mary Roach find is the Catholic perspective on composting human remains?

4. What was Frederick Zugibe's test and his conclusion?

5. How are animals disposed of at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Mary Roach's account?

6. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

7. Who typically sold body parts, and for what purposes?

8. What was Father Armailhac's request for scientific study?

9. What process is Wiigh-Masak advocating in Sweden?

10. What is a mellified man?

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