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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 Mary Roach go to Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital to explore?
(a) How animal bodies were used as food for other animals.
(b) How animal bodies were used for tests.
(c) How animal bodies' death was defined.
(d) How animal bodies were disposed of.

2. Where did blood or body parts come from when they were sold for medicinal purposes?
(a) Children.
(b) Convicts.
(c) Family members.
(d) Animals.

3. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?
(a) Speech in a child's head.
(b) Response in a human head.
(c) Voluntary movement in a dog's head.
(d) No movement in canine or human heads.

4. What ingredient is used in water reduction?
(a) Acid.
(b) Polymers.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Lye.

5. What does Mary Roach say she would hope to become, if she donated her body to science?
(a) A subject in land mine mitigation studies.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A subject in ballistics tests.
(d) A teaching sample for students learning about cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?

2. When were mummies used medicinally?

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

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

5. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

10. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

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