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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 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?
(a) Tissue decay.
(b) Gas buildup.
(c) Organ decay.
(d) Formaldehyde.

2. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Liquid.
(b) Vomit.
(c) Overflow.
(d) Purge.

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

4. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.
(b) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.
(c) The test was inconclusive.
(d) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.

5. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To attract flies to be studied.
(b) To train dogs to find bodies.
(c) For theme parks and haunted houses.
(d) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

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

4. What does Rick Lowden study?

5. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?

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