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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 did Dr. Pierre Barbet focus on in the Shroud?
(a) A split flow of blood.
(b) Symbols in the stains.
(c) A figure in the cloth.
(d) A hole.

2. What other advantage does Marliena Marignani say comes from working on cadavers?
(a) They afford greater visibility.
(b) She can concentrate on the surgery without all the machines, anesthesiologists and nurses around.
(c) The flesh is firmer.
(d) There is no risk of injuring the patient's health.

3. What animals did investigators use to determine cause of death in the British Comet crashes?
(a) Apes.
(b) Live human convicts.
(c) Human cadavers.
(d) Guinea pigs.

4. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?
(a) Whether they would approve being used to teach plastic surgery.
(b) Who their families are.
(c) Whether they gave their permission for this.
(d) How they died.

5. Who is UM006?
(a) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.
(b) A scientist studying human impacts.
(c) A cadaver in an impact study.
(d) A patient in an impact study.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?

2. When, in the course of the disaster of TWA Flight 800, did the passengers likely die, according to Shanahan?

3. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?

4. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?

5. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?

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