2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What percentage of bodies donated to science are used for anatomy lab lessons?
(a) 60%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 40%.

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

10. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?
(a) Perverse.
(b) Ghastly.
(c) Promising.
(d) Fascinating.

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

12. What does Mary Roach say she would hope to become, if she donated her body to science?
(a) A subject in land mine mitigation studies.
(b) A teaching sample for students learning about cancer.
(c) A subject in ballistics tests.
(d) A skeleton.

13. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?
(a) The shape and color of the soul.
(b) The weight of the soul.
(c) The smell of the soul.
(d) The moment when the soul leaves the body.

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

15. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?
(a) Being buried alive.
(b) Being used in ballistics tests.
(c) Having limbs and organs removed.
(d) Being used for scientific experimentation.