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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 heart of the soul.
(b) As the last thing to die.
(c) As the location of the soul.
(d) As the seat of consciousness.

2. When was the first crematory built?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1874.

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

4. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Making a severed head blink.
(b) Electrifying severed heads.
(c) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(d) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.

5. Which mummies were supposed to be best?
(a) Bodies of philosopher kings.
(b) Bodies that died violently.
(c) Bodies that died suddenly.
(d) Bodies that died peacefully.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Barbet skeptical about?

2. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?

3. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

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

5. What is anastomosis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a mellified man?

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

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

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

7. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

8. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

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

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