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

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

3. What is the result of water reduction?
(a) Sterile liquid.
(b) Tissue that does not decompose quickly.
(c) Shorter periods of bloat in decomposition.
(d) Preserved tissue.

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

5. 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 the most modern way to execute someone.
(d) It was a model of modern efficiency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mummies were supposed to be best?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

3. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

4. What kind of mummies were sold in 18th century Alexandria?

5. What almost prevented cremation from getting off the ground?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Dr. Joseph Guillotin and what was his opinion about the ethics of decapitation as a method of execution?

2. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

4. What was Father Armailhac's request for scientific study?

5. What does Mary Roach say she wants to become if she donates her body?

6. What is the accepted standard for death in the medical community, according to Mary Roach?

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

8. How did Barbet test the strength of the palms for holding up a person's weight?

9. What practice came from experiments from V. N. Shamov?

10. What is plastination?

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