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

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(b) Cadaver reanimation.
(c) Field research on human body decay.
(d) Trade in cadaver tissues.

3. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?
(a) Deny any impropriety in advance.
(b) Describe the research in general terms.
(c) Refuse to disclose anything.
(d) Prosecute anyone who discloses the nature of the research.

4. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.
(b) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(c) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(d) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.

5. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Body armor.
(b) Boots.
(c) Bullet-proof vests.
(d) Helmets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?

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

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

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

5. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

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