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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 did Robert White have some success with?
(a) Transplanting dog heads.
(b) Transplanting monkey heads.
(c) Transplanting dog hearts.
(d) Transplanting human heads.

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

3. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Relieving pain.
(b) Having faith.
(c) Spreading religion.
(d) Spreading democracy.

4. What does Mary Roach decide about disposing of her remains?
(a) She wants to be plastinated.
(b) It is not up to her.
(c) She wants to be buried without embalming.
(d) She wants to be cremated.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

2. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

3. How does Mary Roach describe plasticized organs?

4. What does the surgeon use to open H's chest?

5. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is plastination?

3. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

4. What was Father Armailhac's request for scientific study?

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

6. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

7. What does Mary Roach find is the Catholic perspective on composting human remains?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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