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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. 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 where they sat in a plane.
(c) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

2. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were mummified and collected.
(c) They were buried where they fell.
(d) They were shipped home and buried.

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

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

5. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Mortuary science.
(b) Revitalization.
(c) Embalming.
(d) Resurrection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Barbet test his skepticism?

2. What does Dennis Shanahan normally investigate?

3. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

4. What causes bloat in cadavers?

5. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

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