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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say funeral reform was driven by?
(a) Big business.
(b) Government regulation.
(c) Utilitarianism.
(d) Religion.

2. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?
(a) Keep her body alive.
(b) Give the body nutrition to feed its tissues.
(c) Bring her back to life.
(d) Begin to remove her organs.

3. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?
(a) Strangely textured.
(b) Odorless.
(c) Lightweight.
(d) Colorful.

4. What ingredient is used in water reduction?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Lye.
(c) Polymers.
(d) Acid.

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

6. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Chemical bath.
(c) Blood circulation.
(d) Oxygen infusion.

7. What is anastomosis?
(a) The technique for drawing thoughts out of nerve synapses.
(b) The technique for joining vessels without leaks.
(c) The technique for infusing severed heads with blood.
(d) The technique for infusing the brain with oxygen.

8. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?
(a) A person's breath could not be detected.
(b) The body began to smell.
(c) A person's reflexes no longer reacted.
(d) A heartbeat could not be detected.

9. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?
(a) Partisan.
(b) Fractious.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Unequivocal.

10. 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 keep teaching in death.
(c) He will live in more people's memories.
(d) He will extend his contribution to humanity a little longer.

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

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

13. How did Barbet test his skepticism?
(a) He performed a chemical analysis of the Shroud of Turin.
(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 crucified monkeys and other animals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Roach decide not decide to give her body to The University of New Mexico?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

3. When was the first crematory built?

4. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

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

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