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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 Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Body armor.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Boots.
(d) Bullet-proof vests.

2. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Drop it out of a plane.
(b) Shoot it.
(c) Blow it up.
(d) Lose it in the ocean.

3. When did McDougal perform his experiments?
(a) 1826.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1850.

4. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) A cushion.
(b) A dashboard.
(c) A steering wheel.
(d) The floor.

5. What did father Armaillhac want to prove about the Shroud of Turin?
(a) That it was not the burial cloth of Christ.
(b) That it was a forgery.
(c) That it was of recent origin.
(d) That it was the burial cloth of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

2. What was Barbet skeptical about?

3. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?

4. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?

5. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?

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