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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 Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?
(a) The shroud being used for another purpose after Christ's crucifixion.
(b) Christ repositioning himself on the cross.
(c) The process of taking Christ down from the cross.
(d) The wound in Christ's side.

2. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a demotion from surgery.
(b) As a rare opportunity.
(c) As a form of punishment.
(d) As a last chance to learn techniques.

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

4. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His old friends.
(b) His former professors.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His former patients.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

2. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?

3. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?

4. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

5. Who is Mike Walsh?

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