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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Just a Head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Cadaver reanimation.
(b) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(c) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(d) Field research on human body decay.

2. What did Robert White have some success with?
(a) Transplanting dog heads.
(b) Transplanting dog hearts.
(c) Transplanting human heads.
(d) Transplanting monkey heads.

3. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?
(a) Deny any impropriety in advance.
(b) Refuse to disclose anything.
(c) Prosecute anyone who discloses the nature of the research.
(d) Describe the research in general terms.

4. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.
(b) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.
(c) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.
(d) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.

5. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.
(b) Making a severed head blink.
(c) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(d) Electrifying severed heads.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

3. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?

4. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

5. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

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