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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a mellified man?
(a) A cadaver soaked in honey.
(b) A mummified body.
(c) A cadaver who died suddenly.
(d) A yogi who accepted death before dying.

3. What was Barbet skeptical about?
(a) The notion that crucifixion kills a man by asphyxiation.
(b) The ability of a crucified person to reposition himself.
(c) The weight-bearing ability of a nail through the palm.
(d) The blood patterns on the Shroud of Turin.

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

5. Who is Kevin McCabe?
(a) A funeral home owner.
(b) Another writer.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A researcher at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

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

7. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?
(a) Give the body nutrition to feed its tissues.
(b) Begin to remove her organs.
(c) Keep her body alive.
(d) Bring her back to life.

8. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?
(a) Commiserate.
(b) Measure impressions.
(c) Communicate.
(d) Commune.

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

10. What does Mary Roach say she would hope to become, if she donated her body to science?
(a) A subject in land mine mitigation studies.
(b) A skeleton.
(c) A teaching sample for students learning about cancer.
(d) A subject in ballistics tests.

11. When were mummies used medicinally?
(a) 8th - 12th centuries AD.
(b) 8th - 6th centuries BCE.
(c) 16th - 18th centuries AD.
(d) 4th - 8th centuries AD.

12. What was the original advantage of cremation when it was first advocated?
(a) More efficient.
(b) Sterile.
(c) Less pollution.
(d) Cheaper.

13. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?
(a) Being used for scientific experimentation.
(b) Being buried alive.
(c) Being used in ballistics tests.
(d) Having limbs and organs removed.

14. What is the result of water reduction?
(a) Tissue that does not decompose quickly.
(b) Preserved tissue.
(c) Shorter periods of bloat in decomposition.
(d) Sterile liquid.

15. What was Destot's space?
(a) The area around the facial features in the Shroud of Turin.
(b) The space from which a person's last gasp comes when crucified.
(c) The space between a person and their clothes, which allows them to lose their clothing in an airline disaster.
(d) The place in the wrist where a nail could support a person's weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of mummies were sold in 18th century Alexandria?

2. What is the advantage of water reduction?

3. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

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

5. How did Barbet test his skepticism?

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