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

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

3. Which mummies were supposed to be best?
(a) Bodies that died peacefully.
(b) Bodies that died violently.
(c) Bodies that died suddenly.
(d) Bodies of philosopher kings.

4. 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 for tests.
(c) How animal bodies were disposed of.
(d) How animal bodies were used as food for other animals.

5. What is the result of water reduction?
(a) Sterile liquid.
(b) Tissue that does not decompose quickly.
(c) Shorter periods of bloat in decomposition.
(d) Preserved tissue.

6. When did McDougal perform his experiments?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1850.

7. 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.

8. What did Frederick Zugibe test?
(a) The ability of the wrist or hand to support a person's weight.
(b) The ability of crucified people to move.
(c) The stains a crucified person will make on a shroud.
(d) The chemistry of the Shroud of Turin.

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

10. What does Mary Roach decide about disposing of her remains?
(a) She wants to be buried without embalming.
(b) She wants to be plastinated.
(c) It is not up to her.
(d) She wants to be cremated.

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

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

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

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

15. Which organs were NOT being harvested from H?
(a) Heart.
(b) Kidneys.
(c) Liver.
(d) Eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?

3. What are brains in brain banks kept in?

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

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

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