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

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

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

4. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?
(a) The weight of the soul.
(b) The smell of the soul.
(c) The shape and color of the soul.
(d) The moment when the soul leaves the body.

5. How did Barbet test his theory?
(a) By laying Shrouds over a number of cadavers.
(b) By crucifying a cadaver.
(c) By hanging weights on cadavers on crosses.
(d) By strapping volunteers to crosses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'water reduction'?

2. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

3. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

4. How did Barbet test his skepticism?

5. Why were skeletons no longer procured from there?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

4. What is a mellified man?

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

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

7. What is plastination?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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