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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 does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Blow it up.
(b) Drop it out of a plane.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Lose it in the ocean.

2. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1916.

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

4. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.
(b) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(c) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.
(d) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

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

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

5. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

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