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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Just a Head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Federal.
(b) Bureaucratic.
(c) Sociopolitical.
(d) Economic.

2. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) The moment of death of tissues.
(b) Family origins of cadavers.
(c) Stages of chemical composition.
(d) Origins and movements of tissues.

3. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.
(b) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.
(c) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.
(d) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.

4. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) The deceased's health at death.
(b) Age of the deceased.
(c) Cause of death.
(d) Time of death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

2. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?

3. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

4. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?

5. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?

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