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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 do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) The moment of death of tissues.
(b) Origins and movements of tissues.
(c) Family origins of cadavers.
(d) Stages of chemical composition.

2. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The opening made by a bullet.
(b) The depth of a bullet wound.
(c) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(d) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.

3. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1847.

4. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?
(a) Families would object to it.
(b) Expense.
(c) Disclosure.
(d) Ethics.

5. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Tissue decomposition.
(b) Bacteria digesting internal organs.
(c) Maggots.
(d) Release of stomach gases.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?

2. What does Rick Lowden study?

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

4. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

5. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

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