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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Remains of the Author.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

3. What does Mary Roach say she would hope to become, if she donated her body to science?
(a) A subject in ballistics tests.
(b) A subject in land mine mitigation studies.
(c) A skeleton.
(d) A teaching sample for students learning about cancer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?

2. What phenomenon gave many false cures legitimacy?

3. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

4. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?

5. What is the advantage of water reduction?

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