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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 did Frederick Zugibe test?
(a) The ability of crucified people to move.
(b) The stains a crucified person will make on a shroud.
(c) The chemistry of the Shroud of Turin.
(d) The ability of the wrist or hand to support a person's weight.

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) With morbid humor.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Contemptuously.
(d) Irreverently.

3. What was UM006 hit with?
(a) A linear impactor.
(b) A pipe.
(c) A car.
(d) A pile of bricks.

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

5. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) The deceased's health at death.
(b) Age of the deceased.
(c) Time of death.
(d) Cause of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?

2. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

3. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?

4. What was Destot's space?

5. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?

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