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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?
(a) Detecting breathing.
(b) Detecting a heartbeat.
(c) Measuring brain activity.
(d) Inflicting pain.

2. 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 cheaper to work with than people.
(c) Cadavers are the best stand-ins for actual human beings.
(d) Cadavers can withstand lethal forces without consequences.

3. What is a mellified man used for?
(a) Topical application for wounded limbs.
(b) Gastric disorders.
(c) Spiritual uses.
(d) Acne.

4. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1954.

5. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.
(b) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(c) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(d) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was surprise supposed to have done to a body before death?

2. How does Shanahan cope with his work?

3. When did McDougal perform his experiments?

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. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

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