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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 researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?
(a) Age of the deceased.
(b) Time of death.
(c) Cause of death.
(d) The deceased's health at death.

2. What experience supported the claim of the man who claimed to end the belief that severed heads remained conscious?
(a) Overseeing executions during the Reign of Terror.
(b) Managing a surgery.
(c) Working in a geriatric ward.
(d) Executing prisoners.

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

4. Which event happened first, in Shanahan's explanation of TWA Flight 800?
(a) Fire swept through the cabin.
(b) Passengers were pulled from their seats.
(c) Gas was ignited by frayed wiring.
(d) Passengers were thrown from the plane.

5. What did Legallois argue might bring a severed head back to consciousness?
(a) Blood circulation.
(b) Oxygen infusion.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Chemical bath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

2. Who is Hugh Patterson?

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

4. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

5. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?

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