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

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Field research on human body decay.
(b) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(c) Cadaver reanimation.
(d) Trade in cadaver tissues.

3. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(b) The opening made by a bullet.
(c) The depth of a bullet wound.
(d) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

4. What did people believe they might do with severed heads?

5. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?

(see the answer key)

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