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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. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.
(b) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.
(c) The test was inconclusive.
(d) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.

2. When were mummies used medicinally?
(a) 8th - 6th centuries BCE.
(b) 8th - 12th centuries AD.
(c) 4th - 8th centuries AD.
(d) 16th - 18th centuries AD.

3. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fragmentation.
(b) Water impact.
(c) Ground impact.
(d) Fire.

4. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(b) Because the pain is debilitating.
(c) Because they know they have been shot.
(d) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.

5. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?
(a) It was the least painful form of execution.
(b) It was the most modern way to execute someone.
(c) It was a model of modern efficiency.
(d) It was inhumane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

3. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

4. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

5. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

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