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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 Robert Knox buy corpses from?
(a) Teaching hospitals.
(b) Murderers.
(c) Cemeteries.
(d) Churches.

2. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?
(a) Brain and central nervous system injuries.
(b) Face injuries.
(c) Organ injuries.
(d) Broken bones.

3. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1947.

4. What was UM006 hit with?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A pile of bricks.
(c) A car.
(d) A linear impactor.

5. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) Often.
(b) All the time.
(c) Not very often.
(d) Hardly ever.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?

2. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?

3. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

4. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

5. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?

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