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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. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?
(a) As the seat of consciousness.
(b) As the last thing to die.
(c) As the heart of the soul.
(d) As the location of the soul.

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

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

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Spreading democracy.
(b) Relieving pain.
(c) Having faith.
(d) Spreading religion.

5. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?
(a) Working in a geriatric ward.
(b) Managing a surgery.
(c) Overseeing executions during the Reign of Terror.
(d) Executing prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

3. What is anastomosis?

4. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?

5. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who typically sold body parts, and for what purposes?

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

3. What is plastination?

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

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

6. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

7. What is a mellified man?

8. Which were the best mummies for medicinal uses?

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

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

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