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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. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(b) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(c) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.
(d) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.

2. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?
(a) Because he has faith in people and their systems.
(b) Because crashes typically happen at takeoff and are survivable.
(c) Because crashes are extremely rare.
(d) Because he has to travel a great deal.

3. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(b) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(c) The opening made by a bullet.
(d) The depth of a bullet wound.

4. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?
(a) When investigators are trying to distinguish between structural failure and bombs in airplanes.
(b) When an airplane's black box is not conclusive or missing.
(c) When investigators are looking for evidence of explosives in buildings.
(d) When ships sink and human remains float.

5. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?
(a) A figure in the cloth.
(b) A hole.
(c) A split flow of blood.
(d) Symbols in the stains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

2. Which mummies were supposed to be best?

3. What kind of properties does Mary Roach say menstrual blood was thought to have?

4. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

5. When were mummies used medicinally?

(see the answer key)

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