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

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

3. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?
(a) A week.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) Three weeks.

4. What does Rick Lowden study?
(a) The ethics of using cadavers in tests.
(b) The effects of the temporary stretch cavity.
(c) The corrosion of bullets in human flesh.
(d) The legality of cadaver and animal tests.

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) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(c) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(d) Cadaver reanimation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

3. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

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

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

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