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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. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?
(a) As the last thing to die.
(b) As the location of the soul.
(c) As the heart of the soul.
(d) As the seat of consciousness.

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

3. Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?
(a) The Book of the Dead.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Chinese Materia Medica.

4. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1896.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?

2. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?

3. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

2. What is a mellified man?

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

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

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

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

7. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

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

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

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