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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 animals used exclusively?
(a) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.
(b) Because the studies are so disfiguring.
(c) Because children are not donated to science.
(d) Because the studies are so invasive.

2. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?
(a) Many cures included alcohol, which has a salutary effect.
(b) The placebo effect.
(c) Maladies go away on their own.
(d) A great number of conditions are stress related.

3. Where did blood or body parts come from when they were sold for medicinal purposes?
(a) Convicts.
(b) Animals.
(c) Family members.
(d) Children.

4. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?
(a) That he had been unethical in his use of cadavers.
(b) That he had used the wrong chemicals in his analysis.
(c) That tests in which live people are strapped to crosses are ineffective.
(d) That he had incorrectly located Destot's place.

5. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.
(b) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.
(c) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.
(d) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

3. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?

4. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

5. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

(see the answer key)

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