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

2. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Stand-up comedy.
(c) Street theatre.
(d) Tragedy.

3. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1931.

4. Why was it hard for Shanahan to investigate the crash of TWA Flight 800?
(a) The bodies were still intact, and lifelike.
(b) The bodies covered a large area.
(c) The bodies were unrecognizable.
(d) There were so many young people on board.

5. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Resurrectionists.
(b) Body snatchers.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Hoodlums.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

3. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

4. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

5. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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