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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. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Heirlooms.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Bodies.

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

3. What did Dr. Barbet believe caused the formations he was interested in?
(a) Christ repositioning himself on the cross.
(b) The process of taking Christ down from the cross.
(c) The wound in Christ's side.
(d) The shroud being used for another purpose after Christ's crucifixion.

4. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?
(a) The placebo effect.
(b) A great number of conditions are stress related.
(c) Maladies go away on their own.
(d) Many cures included alcohol, which has a salutary effect.

5. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) Geriatric studies.
(b) Decomposition studies.
(c) High-speed impact studies.
(d) Pediatric studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

2. How does Mary Roach say the modern medical community feels about the definition of death as brain death?

3. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?

4. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?

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

(see the answer key)

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