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

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?
(a) As the last thing to die.
(b) As the seat of consciousness.
(c) As the location of the soul.
(d) As the heart of the soul.

3. How long until a mellified man can be put to use?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?

2. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?

3. What did dummies prove to investigators?

4. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?

5. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

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