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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They are superstitious.
(b) Because they are working with human remains.
(c) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(d) They are usually timed.

2. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Oxygen infusion.
(c) Chemical bath.
(d) Blood circulation.

3. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?
(a) How to prevent side-impact injuries.
(b) How rescue techniques can save lives.
(c) How much force a soldier can withstand.
(d) How to design helmets.

4. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) The bodies were unrecognizable.
(b) The bodies covered a large area.
(c) The bodies were still intact, and lifelike.
(d) There were so many young people on board.

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Sarpedon.
(b) Asclepius.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?

2. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

3. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?

4. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?

5. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

(see the answer key)

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