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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. Why did La Garde have difficulty stopping the Moro tribesmen in battle, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Because the Moro tribesmen had inured themselves to pain in their initiation rites.
(b) Because they were small targets, and the terrain was full of brush to deflect bullets.
(c) Because they did not know what guns were, and did not know they were shot.
(d) Because they were fighting for their culture's life, and refused to retreat.

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the brain?
(a) As the last thing to die.
(b) As the seat of consciousness.
(c) As the location of the soul.
(d) As the heart of the soul.

3. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?
(a) Partisan.
(b) Unequivocal.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Fractious.

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

5. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Blunt force damage.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Wound repair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

2. What causes bloat in cadavers?

3. What did Frederick Zugibe test?

4. Who is Dennis Shanahan?

5. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?

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