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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 does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Blow it up.
(b) Shoot it.
(c) Lose it in the ocean.
(d) Drop it out of a plane.

2. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?
(a) Death on impact.
(b) Missile attack.
(c) Explosion.
(d) On-board fire.

3. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Ptolemy I.
(c) Nero.
(d) Cleopatra.

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?
(a) Suture them shut.
(b) Stuff them with wool.
(c) Stuff them with cotton.
(d) Glue them shut.

5. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?
(a) Absence of breathing.
(b) A coma that lasted more than six months.
(c) Absence of a heartbeat.
(d) Absence of brain activity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

3. What does UM006 fall onto?

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

5. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

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