Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Mary Roach
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fire.
(b) Water impact.
(c) Ground impact.
(d) Fragmentation.

2. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?
(a) It was the least painful form of execution.
(b) It was a model of modern efficiency.
(c) It was inhumane.
(d) It was the most modern way to execute someone.

3. When did McDougal perform his experiments?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1907.

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(b) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(c) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(d) Liquidation of internal organs.

5. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?
(a) How much force a soldier can withstand.
(b) How to prevent side-impact injuries.
(c) How rescue techniques can save lives.
(d) How to design helmets.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

2. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

3. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?

4. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?

5. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

(see the answer key)

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