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

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

3. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?
(a) It was the most modern way to execute someone.
(b) It was a model of modern efficiency.
(c) It was inhumane.
(d) It was the least painful form of execution.

4. How long until a mellified man can be put to use?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 1 year.

5. How did Barbet test his skepticism?
(a) He strapped volunteers to crosses to see how much movement they could make.
(b) He performed a chemical analysis of the Shroud of Turin.
(c) He crucified monkeys and other animals.
(d) He attached weights to amputated arms to see how much a nail could hold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?

3. What ingredient is used in water reduction?

4. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?

5. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are animals disposed of at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Mary Roach's account?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the accepted standard for death in the medical community, according to Mary Roach?

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

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