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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 does Mary Roach characterize the brain?
(a) As the location of the soul.
(b) As the seat of consciousness.
(c) As the heart of the soul.
(d) As the last thing to die.

2. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because they know they have been shot.
(b) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(c) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(d) Because the pain is debilitating.

3. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Heady and unlike anything else.
(b) Sweet and cloying.
(c) Bitter and rough.
(d) Nauseating and sharp.

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

5. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Bullet-proof vests.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Boots.
(d) Body armor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

2. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?

3. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?

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

5. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

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