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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 did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?
(a) Detecting a heartbeat.
(b) Measuring brain activity.
(c) Detecting breathing.
(d) Inflicting pain.

2. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?
(a) Cadavers are the best stand-ins for actual human beings.
(b) Cadavers can be studied in invasive ways that live subjects cannot.
(c) Cadavers can withstand lethal forces without consequences.
(d) Cadavers are cheaper to work with than people.

3. Who is Mike Walsh?
(a) A teaching surgeon.
(b) The director of willed bodies at Wayne State University.
(c) An investigator at the research center.
(d) The head of dissection and anatomy at San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.

4. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Animals.
(b) Their students.
(c) Their dead relatives.
(d) Street people.

5. Which mummies were supposed to be best?
(a) Bodies of philosopher kings.
(b) Bodies that died peacefully.
(c) Bodies that died violently.
(d) Bodies that died suddenly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?

2. Where did blood or body parts come from when they were sold for medicinal purposes?

3. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?

4. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?

5. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?

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