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

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

3. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Cause of death.
(b) Age of the deceased.
(c) The deceased's health at death.
(d) Time of death.

4. What is anastomosis?
(a) The technique for drawing thoughts out of nerve synapses.
(b) The technique for infusing severed heads with blood.
(c) The technique for infusing the brain with oxygen.
(d) The technique for joining vessels without leaks.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?

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

(see the answer key)

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