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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Just a Head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) To train dogs to find bodies.
(b) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(c) To attract flies to be studied.
(d) For theme parks and haunted houses.

2. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(b) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(c) Liquidation of internal organs.
(d) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.

3. What did Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin say about the guillotine?
(a) It was the most modern way to execute someone.
(b) It was a model of modern efficiency.
(c) It was inhumane.
(d) It was the least painful form of execution.

4. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?
(a) That it would kill from a greater distance than the 45-caliber.
(b) That it would have the same stopping power as the 45-caliber.
(c) That it would be deadlier than the 45-caliber.
(d) That with new bullets, it would be more destructive than the 45-caliber.

5. Why does Duncan McPherson of the LA Police Department believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the bullet affects the brain's balancing ability.
(b) Because the pain is debilitating.
(c) Because the bullet knocks them over.
(d) Because they know they have been shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?

2. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

3. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

4. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?

5. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

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