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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What are brains in brain banks kept in?
(a) Formaldehyde.
(b) Freezer bags.
(c) Acetone.
(d) Plastic.

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

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

7. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?
(a) A split flow of blood.
(b) Symbols in the stains.
(c) A figure in the cloth.
(d) A hole.

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

9. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(b) Electrifying severed heads.
(c) Making a severed head blink.
(d) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.

10. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?
(a) To convert water in tissues to gas.
(b) To fill tissues with oxygen.
(c) To drive water out of tissue.
(d) To fill tissues with polymer.

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

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

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

14. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?
(a) Speech in a child's head.
(b) No movement in canine or human heads.
(c) Response in a human head.
(d) Voluntary movement in a dog's head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What had American Philip Backman developed a technique for?

2. How did Barbet test his skepticism?

3. What does the surgeon use to open H's chest?

4. What does Hugh Patterson of UCSF say about having arranged to donate his body to science?

5. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?

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