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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, How to Know if You're Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Assistants.
(b) Anesthesia.
(c) Accurate medical knowledge.
(d) Training.

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

3. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Cause of death.
(b) Age of the deceased.
(c) Time of death.
(d) The deceased's health at death.

4. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?
(a) At the initial explosion.
(b) At impact.
(c) At depressurization.
(d) At fragmentation of the aircraft.

5. What did dummies prove to investigators?
(a) That bodies will show irrefutable signs in case of explosions.
(b) That impact from long falls does not fragment a body.
(c) That long falls would be fatal before impact.
(d) That clothing is knocked off in long falls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do researchers in Britain bypass familial consent?

2. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?

3. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

4. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?

5. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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