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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 was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Bullet-proof vests.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Boots.
(d) Body armor.

2. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Origins and movements of tissues.
(b) Stages of chemical composition.
(c) Family origins of cadavers.
(d) The moment of death of tissues.

3. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.
(b) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.
(c) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.
(d) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.

4. How does Shanahan cope with his work?
(a) By focusing on parts.
(b) By sticking to protocols.
(c) By working to get justice in bombing cases.
(d) By grieving with colleagues.

5. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(b) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(c) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

2. Who is Dennis Shanahan?

3. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

4. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

5. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

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