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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 do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Internal organs.
(c) Wool.
(d) Stuffing.

2. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?
(a) Because he has to travel a great deal.
(b) Because crashes are extremely rare.
(c) Because crashes typically happen at takeoff and are survivable.
(d) Because he has faith in people and their systems.

3. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.
(b) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(c) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(d) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.

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

5. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?
(a) Money for undergoing surgery.
(b) To watch surgeries.
(c) Unnecessary procedures.
(d) Large charges for small procedures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

2. What does UM006 wear for the study?

3. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?

4. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

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

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