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

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) Executing prisoners.
(c) Managing a surgery.
(d) Working in a geriatric ward.

3. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Embalming.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Mortuary science.
(d) Revitalization.

4. What does the size of a temporary stretch cavity correlate to?
(a) The smaller the cavity, the greater the psychological impact of the shot.
(b) The smaller the cavity, the deeper the wound.
(c) The bigger the cavity, the greater the stopping power.
(d) The bigger the cavity, the deadlier the bullet.

5. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?
(a) Heating.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Cooling.
(d) Nitrogen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?

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

3. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

4. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?

5. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?

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