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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Spreading religion.
(b) Having faith.
(c) Spreading democracy.
(d) Relieving pain.

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

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

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

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

9. What was the original advantage of cremation when it was first advocated?
(a) Cheaper.
(b) Less pollution.
(c) Sterile.
(d) More efficient.

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

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

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

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

14. How long until a mellified man can be put to use?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 100 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were mummies used medicinally?

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

3. What percentage of bodies donated to science are used for anatomy lab lessons?

4. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?

5. What does Mary Roach decide about disposing of her remains?

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