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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) Family origins of cadavers.
(c) Origins and movements of tissues.
(d) Stages of chemical composition.

2. 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) Field research on human body decay.
(d) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.

3. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?
(a) George Martin.
(b) Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin.
(c) Brown-Sequard.
(d) Legallois.

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

5. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Stuff them with cotton.
(b) Suture them shut.
(c) Glue them shut.
(d) Stuff them with wool.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is anastomosis?

5. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

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