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

2. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Internal organs.
(b) Stuffing.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wool.

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

4. 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 pain is debilitating.
(d) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.

5. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Field research on human body decay.
(b) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(c) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(d) Cadaver reanimation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?

3. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?

4. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

5. What is anastomosis?

(see the answer key)

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