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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 Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?
(a) The fact that she had been murdered.
(b) Sadness over H's death.
(c) The notion that she was dead.
(d) The fact that she was being used for parts.

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

3. What is 'water reduction'?
(a) A way to save samples for study.
(b) A form of tissue digestion.
(c) A form of preserving tissue.
(d) A way to accelerate decomposition.

4. What does Hugh Patterson of UCSF say about having arranged to donate his body to science?
(a) He will extend his contribution to humanity a little longer.
(b) He will live in more people's memories.
(c) He will get the most mileage out of his body.
(d) He will keep teaching in death.

5. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?
(a) When advised to eat excrement.
(b) When advised to be bled.
(c) When advised to use ancestors for medicines.
(d) When advised to eat their own flesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of water reduction?

2. What does the surgeon use to open H's chest?

3. Why were skeletons no longer procured from there?

4. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is plastination?

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

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

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

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

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

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