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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. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Unwilling victims.
(b) Disinterred dead people.
(c) Executed criminals.
(d) Live criminals.

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

3. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(b) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(c) Because they know they have been shot.
(d) Because the pain is debilitating.

4. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Body snatchers.
(b) Resurrectionists.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Hoodlums.

5. What did Mary Roach struggle with when she saw H?
(a) The fact that she had been murdered.
(b) The notion that she was dead.
(c) Sadness over H's death.
(d) The fact that she was being used for parts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?

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

3. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

4. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

5. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?

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