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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?
(a) George Martin.
(b) Brown-Sequard.
(c) Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin.
(d) Legallois.

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

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

5. What does Mary Roach go to Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital to explore?
(a) How animal bodies were used for tests.
(b) How animal bodies were used as food for other animals.
(c) How animal bodies' death was defined.
(d) How animal bodies were disposed of.

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

7. How did Barbet test his theory?
(a) By hanging weights on cadavers on crosses.
(b) By laying Shrouds over a number of cadavers.
(c) By crucifying a cadaver.
(d) By strapping volunteers to crosses.

8. Where does Mary Roach say medical school skeletons used to come from?
(a) Mexico.
(b) China.
(c) Calcutta.
(d) Indiana.

9. What does Mary Roach say funeral reform was driven by?
(a) Government regulation.
(b) Big business.
(c) Religion.
(d) Utilitarianism.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?

2. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?

3. What was Destot's space?

4. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?

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

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