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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 Lowden not allowed to do?
(a) Implant bullets surgically.
(b) Retrieve bullets from war dead.
(c) Shoot livestock.
(d) Shoot cadavers.

2. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Criminal investigations.
(b) Families.
(c) Cancer research.
(d) Raw science.

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

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

5. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?
(a) Nitrogen.
(b) Heating.
(c) Cooling.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

2. 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?

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

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

5. What is anastomosis?

(see the answer key)

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