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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Barbet test his skepticism?
(a) He crucified monkeys and other animals.
(b) He attached weights to amputated arms to see how much a nail could hold.
(c) He strapped volunteers to crosses to see how much movement they could make.
(d) He performed a chemical analysis of the Shroud of Turin.

3. What kind of properties does Mary Roach say menstrual blood was thought to have?
(a) Fertilizing.
(b) Enervating.
(c) Preventative.
(d) Curative.

4. What does Hugh Patterson of UCSF say about having arranged to donate his body to science?
(a) He will get the most mileage out of his body.
(b) He will extend his contribution to humanity a little longer.
(c) He will live in more people's memories.
(d) He will keep teaching in death.

5. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?
(a) That he had used the wrong chemicals in his analysis.
(b) That tests in which live people are strapped to crosses are ineffective.
(c) That he had incorrectly located Destot's place.
(d) That he had been unethical in his use of cadavers.

6. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1947.

7. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?
(a) It was inhumane.
(b) It was the most modern way to execute someone.
(c) It was the least painful form of execution.
(d) It was a model of modern efficiency.

8. What was Barbet skeptical about?
(a) The ability of a crucified person to reposition himself.
(b) The weight-bearing ability of a nail through the palm.
(c) The blood patterns on the Shroud of Turin.
(d) The notion that crucifixion kills a man by asphyxiation.

9. 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) Ties to Catholicism.
(d) The sense of secularism.

10. What was Destot's space?
(a) The place in the wrist where a nail could support a person's weight.
(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 space from which a person's last gasp comes when crucified.

11. What had American Philip Backman developed a technique for?
(a) Cryogenically freezing human remains.
(b) Liquefying human remains.
(c) Freeze-drying human remains.
(d) Plasticizing human remains.

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

13. What does Mary Roach go to Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital to explore?
(a) How animal bodies' death was defined.
(b) How animal bodies were used as food for other animals.
(c) How animal bodies were used for tests.
(d) How animal bodies were disposed of.

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

15. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?
(a) The process of taking Christ down from the cross.
(b) Christ repositioning himself on the cross.
(c) The wound in Christ's side.
(d) The shroud being used for another purpose after Christ's crucifixion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is anastomosis?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

3. What state is H in when she arrives at UCSF medical center?

4. What was the original advantage of cremation when it was first advocated?

5. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?

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