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

2. How long until a mellified man can be put to use?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 100 years.

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

4. What was Mary Roach dismayed to find out about brains in the brain bank?
(a) They are fed to animals when they are ultimately disposed of.
(b) They are typically studied by undergraduates.
(c) They become indistinguishable from one another.
(d) They are not kept in jars in formaldehyde.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were mummies used medicinally?

2. How did Barbet test his theory?

3. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

4. Which mummies were supposed to be best?

5. What replaces water in tissue in plastination?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

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

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

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

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

6. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

7. What test did French physician Brown-Sequard perform?

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

9. How are animals disposed of at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Mary Roach's account?

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

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