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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. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Animals.
(b) Street people.
(c) Their dead relatives.
(d) Their students.

2. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) The bodies were unrecognizable.
(b) The bodies covered a large area.
(c) The bodies were still intact, and lifelike.
(d) There were so many young people on board.

3. What did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?
(a) Symbols in the stains.
(b) A figure in the cloth.
(c) A hole.
(d) A split flow of blood.

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

5. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?
(a) Face injuries.
(b) Organ injuries.
(c) Broken bones.
(d) Brain and central nervous system injuries.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

3. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?

4. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

5. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

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