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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. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?
(a) Passengers were pulled from their seats.
(b) Passengers were thrown from the plane.
(c) Gas was ignited by frayed wiring.
(d) Fire swept through the cabin.

2. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?
(a) That it was the burial cloth of Christ.
(b) That it was of recent origin.
(c) That it was not the burial cloth of Christ.
(d) That it was a forgery.

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

4. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Cadaver reanimation.
(b) Trade in cadaver tissues.
(c) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(d) Field research on human body decay.

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Herophilus.
(b) Asclepius.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Sarpedon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

3. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

4. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

5. How did Barbet test his skepticism?

(see the answer key)

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