Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz Questions | Quiz: Chapter 5, Beyond the Black Box

Quiz: Chapter 5, Beyond the Black Box

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
a) Burns.
b) Torn aortas.
c) Fragmented bodies.
d) Bodies without clothes.

2. What did dummies prove to investigators?
a) That long falls would be fatal before impact.
b) That bodies will show irrefutable signs in case of explosions.
c) That impact from long falls does not fragment a body.
d) That clothing is knocked off in long falls.

3. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?
a) Age of corpses.
b) Intactness of corpses.
c) Time of death.
d) Distribution of corpses.