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

2. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?
(a) That tests in which live people are strapped to crosses are ineffective.
(b) That he had incorrectly located Destot's place.
(c) That he had used the wrong chemicals in his analysis.
(d) That he had been unethical in his use of cadavers.

3. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Scientific study.
(c) Building material.
(d) Medical training.

4. What had American Philip Backman developed a technique for?
(a) Plasticizing human remains.
(b) Liquefying human remains.
(c) Freeze-drying human remains.
(d) Cryogenically freezing human remains.

5. What is a mellified man used for?
(a) Spiritual uses.
(b) Acne.
(c) Gastric disorders.
(d) Topical application for wounded limbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say she would hope to become, if she donated her body to science?

2. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?

3. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?

5. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a mellified man?

3. What is plastination?

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

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

6. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

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

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

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

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