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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 class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Blunt force damage.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Wound repair.

2. Who is UM006?
(a) A patient in an impact study.
(b) A scientist studying human impacts.
(c) A cadaver in an impact study.
(d) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.

3. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Nauseating and sharp.
(b) Bitter and rough.
(c) Heady and unlike anything else.
(d) Sweet and cloying.

4. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?
(a) That it would kill from a greater distance than the 45-caliber.
(b) That with new bullets, it would be more destructive than the 45-caliber.
(c) That it would be deadlier than the 45-caliber.
(d) That it would have the same stopping power as the 45-caliber.

5. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Singing and reading.
(b) Teaching sections.
(c) Presenting papers.
(d) Practicing and being critiqued.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

3. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

5. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

(see the answer key)

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