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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. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Drop it out of a plane.
(b) Lose it in the ocean.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Blow it up.

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

3. 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 whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(c) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

4. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?
(a) At fragmentation of the aircraft.
(b) At impact.
(c) At the initial explosion.
(d) At depressurization.

5. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?
(a) Passengers were pulled from their seats.
(b) Gas was ignited by frayed wiring.
(c) Fire swept through the cabin.
(d) Passengers were thrown from the plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

2. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?

3. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?

4. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

5. Which organs were NOT being harvested from H?

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