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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. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?
(a) Perjuring themselves.
(b) Violating ethics laws.
(c) Offending families later.
(d) Losing cadavers to work with in the future.

2. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Arrest.
(b) Court martial.
(c) Discharge.
(d) Defunding.

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

4. What does Rick Lowden study?
(a) The effects of the temporary stretch cavity.
(b) The corrosion of bullets in human flesh.
(c) The ethics of using cadavers in tests.
(d) The legality of cadaver and animal tests.

5. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.
(b) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.
(c) The test was inconclusive.
(d) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?

2. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

3. What is anastomosis?

4. How does the army avoid telling families what they use cadavers for?

5. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?

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