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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did blood or body parts come from when they were sold for medicinal purposes?
(a) Animals.
(b) Convicts.
(c) Family members.
(d) Children.

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

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

4. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?
(a) To drive water out of tissue.
(b) To fill tissues with oxygen.
(c) To convert water in tissues to gas.
(d) To fill tissues with polymer.

5. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?
(a) Medical training.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Building material.
(d) Scientific study.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is anastomosis?

2. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?

3. What is the advantage of water reduction?

4. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?

5. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say she ultimately wants to do with her body?

2. What is a mellified man?

3. What was H being used for at the UCSF Medical Center when Mary Roach was observing?

4. What process is Wiigh-Masak advocating in Sweden?

5. What did Dr. Robert White do with a monkey brain, and what was Mary Roach's question for Dr. Robert White?

6. What was Frederick Zugibe's test and his conclusion?

7. What is plastination?

8. What percentage of cadavers donated to science become anatomy lab dissections?

9. What test did French physician Brown-Sequard perform?

10. Who typically sold body parts, and for what purposes?

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