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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What almost prevented cremation from getting off the ground?
(a) Ties to Catholicism.
(b) The sense of secularism.
(c) The personalities of the people who ran it.
(d) Laws governing disposal of human remains.

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

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

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

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

8. What is 'water reduction'?
(a) A form of tissue digestion.
(b) A way to accelerate decomposition.
(c) A form of preserving tissue.
(d) A way to save samples for study.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does the surgeon use to open H's chest?
(a) A laser.
(b) A cauterizing wand.
(c) A knife.
(d) A saw.

15. How did Barbet test his skepticism?
(a) He attached weights to amputated arms to see how much a nail could hold.
(b) He performed a chemical analysis of the Shroud of Turin.
(c) He crucified monkeys and other animals.
(d) He strapped volunteers to crosses to see how much movement they could make.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

2. What was the original advantage of cremation when it was first advocated?

3. What is a mellified man?

4. What state is H in when she arrives at UCSF medical center?

5. What did Robert White have some success with?

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