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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. Why are animals used exclusively?
(a) Because the studies are so disfiguring.
(b) Because the studies are so invasive.
(c) Because children are not donated to science.
(d) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.

2. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?
(a) How to prevent side-impact injuries.
(b) How rescue techniques can save lives.
(c) How much force a soldier can withstand.
(d) How to design helmets.

3. What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?
(a) Being buried alive.
(b) Having limbs and organs removed.
(c) Being used for scientific experimentation.
(d) Being used in ballistics tests.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?

2. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

4. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

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

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