Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Test | Final Test - Easy

Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ingredient is used in water reduction?
(a) Lye.
(b) Acid.
(c) Polymers.
(d) Oxygen.

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

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

4. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?
(a) No movement in canine or human heads.
(b) Voluntary movement in a dog's head.
(c) Speech in a child's head.
(d) Response in a human head.

5. What does Hugh Patterson of UCSF say about having arranged to donate his body to science?
(a) He will keep teaching in death.
(b) He will get the most mileage out of his body.
(c) He will extend his contribution to humanity a little longer.
(d) He will live in more people's memories.

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

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

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

9. What does Mary Roach go to Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital to explore?
(a) How animal bodies were used as food for other animals.
(b) How animal bodies were used for tests.
(c) How animal bodies' death was defined.
(d) How animal bodies were disposed of.

10. When did McDougal perform his experiments?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1850.

11. Which mummies were supposed to be best?
(a) Bodies of philosopher kings.
(b) Bodies that died suddenly.
(c) Bodies that died peacefully.
(d) Bodies that died violently.

12. Why does Mary Roach decide not decide to give her body to The University of New Mexico?
(a) They do not plasticize tissues for study.
(b) They do not study land mine mitigation with cadavers there.
(c) They do not articulate bodies into skeletons.
(d) They do not use bodies in ballistics tests.

13. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1914.

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

15. What is the purpose of acetone in the University of Michigan Medical School process that Mary Roach observes?
(a) To fill tissues with polymer.
(b) To drive water out of tissue.
(c) To fill tissues with oxygen.
(d) To convert water in tissues to gas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of bodies donated to science are used for anatomy lab lessons?

2. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?

3. What is the advantage of water reduction?

4. What did Frederick Zugibe test?

5. What is 'water reduction'?

(see the answer keys)

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