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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. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?
(a) That the original stream was not from Christ repositioning himself.
(b) That the stains were not authentic.
(c) That the Shroud was a forgery.
(d) That the second stream was from washing a wound.

2. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Their dead relatives.
(b) Animals.
(c) Street people.
(d) Their students.

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Ptolemy I.
(b) Nero.
(c) Alcibiades.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

5. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(b) The depth of a bullet wound.
(c) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(d) The opening made by a bullet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

2. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?

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

4. What does UM006 fall onto?

5. What does the size of a temporary stretch cavity correlate to?

(see the answer key)

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