View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is UM006?
(a) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.
(b) A scientist studying human impacts.
(c) A patient in an impact study.
(d) A cadaver in an impact study.

2. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Drop it out of a plane.
(b) Blow it up.
(c) Lose it in the ocean.
(d) Shoot it.

3. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?
(a) Ghastly.
(b) Promising.
(c) Fascinating.
(d) Perverse.

4. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?
(a) Low-speed head-on.
(b) High-speed side-impact.
(c) High-speed rear-impact.
(d) Low-speed side-impact.

5. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?
(a) A constant flow.
(b) Cadavers that are not claimed turn up from time to time.
(c) Cadavers are exceedingly rare outside of teaching hospitals.
(d) Only rare amputations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did dummies prove to investigators?

2. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?

3. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?

5. Who is Dennis Shanahan?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 293 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample