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

2. What does Shanahan use as a gauge of a disaster?
(a) Age of corpses.
(b) Time of death.
(c) Distribution of corpses.
(d) Intactness of corpses.

3. What does UM006 wear for the study?
(a) A helmet.
(b) A loincloth.
(c) A hood.
(d) A sensor suit.

4. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.
(b) The test was inconclusive.
(c) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.
(d) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.

5. What was Barbet skeptical about?
(a) The blood patterns on the Shroud of Turin.
(b) The notion that crucifixion kills a man by asphyxiation.
(c) The ability of a crucified person to reposition himself.
(d) The weight-bearing ability of a nail through the palm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

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

3. Who is UM006?

4. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

5. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?

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