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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a mellified man used for?
(a) Topical application for wounded limbs.
(b) Acne.
(c) Spiritual uses.
(d) Gastric disorders.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?
(a) Chemical bath.
(b) Oxygen infusion.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Blood circulation.

11. What was Mary Roach dismayed to find out about brains in the brain bank?
(a) They are fed to animals when they are ultimately disposed of.
(b) They are typically studied by undergraduates.
(c) They are not kept in jars in formaldehyde.
(d) They become indistinguishable from one another.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?

2. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?

3. What was Destot's space?

4. What kind of properties does Mary Roach say menstrual blood was thought to have?

5. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?

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