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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Holy Cadaver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.
(c) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.
(d) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.

2. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Spreading religion.
(b) Having faith.
(c) Relieving pain.
(d) Spreading democracy.

3. How did Barbet test his theory?
(a) By laying Shrouds over a number of cadavers.
(b) By crucifying a cadaver.
(c) By strapping volunteers to crosses.
(d) By hanging weights on cadavers on crosses.

4. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?
(a) Organ decay.
(b) Tissue decay.
(c) Gas buildup.
(d) Formaldehyde.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?

2. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

3. What was UM006 hit with?

4. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

5. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

(see the answer key)

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