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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, How to Know if You're Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Destot's space?
(a) The area around the facial features in the Shroud of Turin.
(b) The space from which a person's last gasp comes when crucified.
(c) The space between a person and their clothes, which allows them to lose their clothing in an airline disaster.
(d) The place in the wrist where a nail could support a person's weight.

2. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?
(a) A coma that lasted more than six months.
(b) Absence of a heartbeat.
(c) Absence of brain activity.
(d) Absence of breathing.

3. In what field are animals used almost exclusively?
(a) Geriatric studies.
(b) Pediatric studies.
(c) High-speed impact studies.
(d) Decomposition studies.

4. When was Captain Louis Le Garde ordered to use cadavers to test the 30-caliber Springfield rifle against the 45-caliber?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1916.

5. How does Shanahan cope with his work?
(a) By grieving with colleagues.
(b) By focusing on parts.
(c) By sticking to protocols.
(d) By working to get justice in bombing cases.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

3. What sign ultimately showed doctors and families that a person was dead?

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

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

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