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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?
(a) Christ repositioning himself on the cross.
(b) The process of taking Christ down from the cross.
(c) The wound in Christ's side.
(d) The shroud being used for another purpose after Christ's crucifixion.

2. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Unequivocal.
(c) Partisan.
(d) Fractious.

3. What percentage of bodies donated to science are used for anatomy lab lessons?
(a) 40%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 60%.

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

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

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

7. What are brains in brain banks kept in?
(a) Acetone.
(b) Formaldehyde.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Freezer bags.

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

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

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

11. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?
(a) It was inhumane.
(b) It was a model of modern efficiency.
(c) It was the least painful form of execution.
(d) It was the most modern way to execute someone.

12. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?
(a) Detecting breathing.
(b) Detecting a heartbeat.
(c) Measuring brain activity.
(d) Inflicting pain.

13. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?
(a) A split flow of blood.
(b) Symbols in the stains.
(c) A hole.
(d) A figure in the cloth.

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

15. What is the advantage of water reduction?
(a) Cheaper and cleaner than cremation.
(b) Ability to dissolve large animal bodies quickly.
(c) Faster and less resource intensive than burial.
(d) Fewer environmental consequences than cremation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'water reduction'?

2. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

3. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?

4. Which organs were NOT being harvested from H?

5. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?

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