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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, How to Know if You're Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(b) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.
(c) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.
(d) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.

2. 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 depth of a bullet wound.
(d) The opening made by a bullet.

3. What did Dr. Duncan McDougal try to measure?
(a) The weight of the soul.
(b) The smell of the soul.
(c) The moment when the soul leaves the body.
(d) The shape and color of the soul.

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

5. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?
(a) That the second stream was from washing a wound.
(b) That the stains were not authentic.
(c) That the Shroud was a forgery.
(d) That the original stream was not from Christ repositioning himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

2. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?

3. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

4. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

5. What was Barbet skeptical about?

(see the answer key)

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