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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. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) Three weeks.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

2. What does the size of a temporary stretch cavity correlate to?

3. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?

5. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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