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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?
(a) Perverse.
(b) Fascinating.
(c) Promising.
(d) Ghastly.

2. What does evidence suggest killed the passengers on TWA Flight 800?
(a) Water impact.
(b) Ground impact.
(c) Fire.
(d) Fragmentation.

3. What was Destot's space?
(a) The place in the wrist where a nail could support a person's weight.
(b) The area around the facial features in the Shroud of Turin.
(c) The space from which a person's last gasp comes when crucified.
(d) The space between a person and their clothes, which allows them to lose their clothing in an airline disaster.

4. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because they know they have been shot.
(b) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(c) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(d) Because the pain is debilitating.

5. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a demotion from surgery.
(b) As a rare opportunity.
(c) As a last chance to learn techniques.
(d) As a form of punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?

2. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

3. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

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

5. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?

(see the answer key)

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