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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mary Roach decide not decide to give her body to The University of New Mexico?
(a) They do not use bodies in ballistics tests.
(b) They do not articulate bodies into skeletons.
(c) They do not plasticize tissues for study.
(d) They do not study land mine mitigation with cadavers there.

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

4. When was the first crematory built?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1914.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. When were mummies used medicinally?
(a) 4th - 8th centuries AD.
(b) 8th - 12th centuries AD.
(c) 8th - 6th centuries BCE.
(d) 16th - 18th centuries AD.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?

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

3. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?

4. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?

5. Where did blood or body parts come from when they were sold for medicinal purposes?

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