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

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

3. 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 become indistinguishable from one another.
(c) They are not kept in jars in formaldehyde.
(d) They are typically studied by undergraduates.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

2. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?

3. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

4. When were mummies used medicinally?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the accepted standard for death in the medical community, according to Mary Roach?

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

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

5. What was Pierre Barbet's conclusion about Armailhac's request?

6. Describe the procedure in which H was opened.

7. What did Duncan McDougal try to measure?

8. What belief did Georges Martin try to debunk?

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

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

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