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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 Robert White have some success with?
(a) Transplanting dog heads.
(b) Transplanting dog hearts.
(c) Transplanting human heads.
(d) Transplanting monkey heads.

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

4. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?
(a) Nitrogen.
(b) Cooling.
(c) Heating.
(d) Oxygen.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

4. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?

5. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

(see the answer key)

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