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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 father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?
(a) That it was a forgery.
(b) That it was the burial cloth of Christ.
(c) That it was not the burial cloth of Christ.
(d) That it was of recent origin.

2. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Electrifying severed heads.
(b) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.
(c) Making a severed head blink.
(d) Infusing blood into severed heads.

3. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?
(a) The fact that she was being used for parts.
(b) Sadness over H's death.
(c) The notion that she was dead.
(d) The fact that she had been murdered.

4. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?
(a) That the second stream was from washing a wound.
(b) That the original stream was not from Christ repositioning himself.
(c) That the stains were not authentic.
(d) That the Shroud was a forgery.

5. Why were skeletons no longer procured from there?
(a) Because regulations were imposed on shipping human remains.
(b) Authorities found out that children were being murdered for the trade.
(c) Because human rights groups objected.
(d) Because the packing and labeling practices were poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of properties does Mary Roach say menstrual blood was thought to have?

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

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

4. What is anastomosis?

5. What ingredient is used in water reduction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a mellified man?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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