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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. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Bullet-proof vests.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Boots.
(d) Body armor.

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

3. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?
(a) Measure impressions.
(b) Commune.
(c) Communicate.
(d) Commiserate.

4. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Purge.
(c) Liquid.
(d) Overflow.

5. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried where they fell.
(b) They were buried in Arlington.
(c) They were shipped home and buried.
(d) They were mummified and collected.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?

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

4. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

5. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

(see the answer key)

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