Check your understanding: multiple choice

zombies are represented in different ways in different TV programmes, films and books

our current understanding of what a zombie is comes from a seminal sixties film

people do not find zombies as frightening now as they did in the past

people like zombies because they show us the dark side of humankind

is a Haitian and West African religion

is a witch doctor who practises magic

comes from the Kongo word 'nzambi'

means 'victim'

living people who are kept in a death-like state by poisoning

dead people who have been brought back to life by witch doctors

people who are being punished for disloyalty to the secret police

witch doctors who have poisoned themselves with their own medicine

claimed he was a real-life zombie

said working on a sugar plantation turned people into zombies

took 'zombie powder' to appear dead in order to escape the sugar plantation where he worked

told a Harvard scientist that he knew how to turn people into zombies

identified the poisons in Clairvius Narcisse's blood

experimented with different substances naturally available where Clairvius Narcisse lived

thought Clairvius Narcisse's condition was psychological

asked local witch doctors how to make a zombie

proved Narcisse's theory with rigorous scientific evidence

presented the case with scepticism

was popular with zombie fans but not scientists

was a fictional account based on the real-life story