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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. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Bitter and rough.
(b) Heady and unlike anything else.
(c) Sweet and cloying.
(d) Nauseating and sharp.

2. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Electrifying severed heads.
(b) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(c) Making a severed head blink.
(d) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.

3. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Expense.
(c) Families would object to it.
(d) Disclosure.

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

5. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1916.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?

2. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?

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

4. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?

5. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

(see the answer key)

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