View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?
(a) Cooling.
(b) Nitrogen.
(c) Heating.
(d) Oxygen.

2. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?
(a) Perverse.
(b) Fascinating.
(c) Ghastly.
(d) Promising.

3. What almost prevented cremation from getting off the ground?
(a) The sense of secularism.
(b) The personalities of the people who ran it.
(c) Laws governing disposal of human remains.
(d) Ties to Catholicism.

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

5. Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?
(a) The Book of the Dead.
(b) The Chinese Materia Medica.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Old Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

2. What ingredient is used in water reduction?

3. Which organs were NOT being harvested from H?

4. When was the first crematory built?

5. What does Hugh Patterson of UCSF say about having arranged to donate his body to science?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a mellified man?

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

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

6. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

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

9. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 718 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample