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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 is anastomosis?
(a) The technique for drawing thoughts out of nerve synapses.
(b) The technique for infusing the brain with oxygen.
(c) The technique for joining vessels without leaks.
(d) The technique for infusing severed heads with blood.

2. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Embalming.
(c) Resurrection.
(d) Mortuary science.

3. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(b) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.
(c) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(d) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Stuff them with wool.
(b) Glue them shut.
(c) Suture them shut.
(d) Stuff them with cotton.

5. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?
(a) Brown-Sequard.
(b) Legallois.
(c) George Martin.
(d) Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rick Lowden study?

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

4. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

5. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?

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