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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 did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?
(a) Inflicting pain.
(b) Measuring brain activity.
(c) Detecting a heartbeat.
(d) Detecting breathing.

2. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Family origins of cadavers.
(b) The moment of death of tissues.
(c) Stages of chemical composition.
(d) Origins and movements of tissues.

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Stuffing.
(b) Internal organs.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Wool.

4. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Arrest.
(b) Defunding.
(c) Court martial.
(d) Discharge.

5. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(b) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(c) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?

2. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

3. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

4. Who is Hugh Patterson?

5. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?

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