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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Robert White have some success with?
(a) Transplanting human heads.
(b) Transplanting dog hearts.
(c) Transplanting dog heads.
(d) Transplanting monkey heads.

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

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

6. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?
(a) Nitrogen.
(b) Heating.
(c) Cooling.
(d) Oxygen.

7. Who is Kevin McCabe?
(a) A funeral home owner.
(b) A farmer.
(c) Another writer.
(d) A researcher at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

8. 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.

9. What kind of mummies were sold in 18th century Alexandria?
(a) Recent.
(b) Counterfeit.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Syrian.

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

11. What is the advantage of water reduction?
(a) Faster and less resource intensive than burial.
(b) Ability to dissolve large animal bodies quickly.
(c) Cheaper and cleaner than cremation.
(d) Fewer environmental consequences than cremation.

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

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

14. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?
(a) Building material.
(b) Medical training.
(c) Scientific study.
(d) Fertilizer.

15. What state is H in when she arrives at UCSF medical center?
(a) Dead for days.
(b) Dead for hours.
(c) Living.
(d) Brain dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

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

3. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

4. What is 'water reduction'?

5. What is the result of water reduction?

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