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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 was Destot's space?
(a) The space between a person and their clothes, which allows them to lose their clothing in an airline disaster.
(b) The place in the wrist where a nail could support a person's weight.
(c) The area around the facial features in the Shroud of Turin.
(d) The space from which a person's last gasp comes when crucified.

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

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

4. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?
(a) A heartbeat could not be detected.
(b) A person's reflexes no longer reacted.
(c) The body began to smell.
(d) A person's breath could not be detected.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

2. What was surprise supposed to have done to a body before death?

3. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

4. What does Mary Roach go to Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital to explore?

5. What was Barbet skeptical about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a mellified man?

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

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

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

6. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

8. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

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

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

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