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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?
(a) Being used for scientific experimentation.
(b) Being buried alive.
(c) Being used in ballistics tests.
(d) Having limbs and organs removed.

2. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?
(a) The fact that she had been murdered.
(b) The fact that she was being used for parts.
(c) Sadness over H's death.
(d) The notion that she was dead.

3. What was Destot's space?
(a) The space from which a person's last gasp comes when crucified.
(b) The area around the facial features in the Shroud of Turin.
(c) The space between a person and their clothes, which allows them to lose their clothing in an airline disaster.
(d) The place in the wrist where a nail could support a person's weight.

4. Why were skeletons no longer procured from there?
(a) Because human rights groups objected.
(b) Because the packing and labeling practices were poor.
(c) Because regulations were imposed on shipping human remains.
(d) Authorities found out that children were being murdered for the trade.

5. What is 'water reduction'?
(a) A form of tissue digestion.
(b) A way to accelerate decomposition.
(c) A form of preserving tissue.
(d) A way to save samples for study.

6. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?
(a) The moment when the soul leaves the body.
(b) The smell of the soul.
(c) The weight of the soul.
(d) The shape and color of the soul.

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

8. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?
(a) Absence of a heartbeat.
(b) A coma that lasted more than six months.
(c) Absence of brain activity.
(d) Absence of breathing.

9. What is a mellified man used for?
(a) Gastric disorders.
(b) Acne.
(c) Spiritual uses.
(d) Topical application for wounded limbs.

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

11. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?
(a) Communicate.
(b) Commiserate.
(c) Measure impressions.
(d) Commune.

12. Which organs were NOT being harvested from H?
(a) Kidneys.
(b) Heart.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Liver.

13. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?
(a) Executing prisoners.
(b) Overseeing executions during the Reign of Terror.
(c) Working in a geriatric ward.
(d) Managing a surgery.

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

15. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?
(a) Brown-Sequard.
(b) George Martin.
(c) Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin.
(d) Legallois.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?

2. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

3. When were mummies used medicinally?

4. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?

5. What does Mary Roach say funeral reform was driven by?

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