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

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

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

5. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?
(a) Heating.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Cooling.
(d) Nitrogen.

6. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?
(a) Lightweight.
(b) Strangely textured.
(c) Colorful.
(d) Odorless.

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

8. 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.

9. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Electrifying severed heads.
(b) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(c) Making a severed head blink.
(d) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.

10. What had American Philip Backman developed a technique for?
(a) Cryogenically freezing human remains.
(b) Freeze-drying human remains.
(c) Plasticizing human remains.
(d) Liquefying human remains.

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

12. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?
(a) That it was the burial cloth of Christ.
(b) That it was not the burial cloth of Christ.
(c) That it was of recent origin.
(d) That it was a forgery.

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

14. What is a mellified man?
(a) A yogi who accepted death before dying.
(b) A cadaver who died suddenly.
(c) A cadaver soaked in honey.
(d) A mummified body.

15. What is anastomosis?
(a) The technique for infusing the brain with oxygen.
(b) The technique for joining vessels without leaks.
(c) The technique for infusing severed heads with blood.
(d) The technique for drawing thoughts out of nerve synapses.