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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 threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Discharge.
(b) Court martial.
(c) Arrest.
(d) Defunding.

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

3. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?
(a) Voluntary movement in a dog's head.
(b) Speech in a child's head.
(c) No movement in canine or human heads.
(d) Response in a human head.

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

5. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Bureaucratic.
(b) Economic.
(c) Federal.
(d) Sociopolitical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?

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

3. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

4. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?

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

(see the answer key)

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