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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. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?
(a) Inflicting pain.
(b) Detecting breathing.
(c) Measuring brain activity.
(d) Detecting a heartbeat.

2. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?
(a) Begin to remove her organs.
(b) Keep her body alive.
(c) Bring her back to life.
(d) Give the body nutrition to feed its tissues.

3. What is the advantage of water reduction?
(a) Ability to dissolve large animal bodies quickly.
(b) Fewer environmental consequences than cremation.
(c) Cheaper and cleaner than cremation.
(d) Faster and less resource intensive than burial.

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Having faith.
(b) Spreading democracy.
(c) Spreading religion.
(d) Relieving pain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are brains in brain banks kept in?

2. What state is H in when she arrives at UCSF medical center?

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

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

5. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was Pierre Barbet's conclusion about Armailhac's request?

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

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

9. What part of the history of cremation does Mary Roach describe?

10. What is plastination?

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