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Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Chapter 7: What bizarre experiment did researchers perform to study crucifixion?
Cadavers were used to test the strength of ancient nails
They nailed mannequins to crosses and measuered their heart rates
Scientists recreated the scene using virtual reality and AI
Volunteers were strapped to crosses to study breathing difficulty
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How do you know if you are officially dead?
Kidneys not functioning
No brain activity
Heart not beating
Not breathing
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What unusual test did Mary Roach attend involving a severed human head?
A brain freeze endurance experiment
A plastic surgery practice session
A facial muscle spasm study
A head trauma reattachment simulation
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Which of these best describes Mary Roach's writing style in stiff?
Dry and technical
Fictional and futuristic
Curious, humorous, and respectiful
Gory and dramactic
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Chapter 1: The head is a terrible thing to waste
Heads are used to practice nose surgery
Heads are used to practice cosmetic surgery practice
All of the above
Heads are used to practice face lifts
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Mary Roach is a
Journalist
Scientist
Baker
Cadaver
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Chapter 3: Life after death: All are correct about embalming except
Makes the skin look suble
It is a temporary perservative
Is mandatory in every state
Is still done to this day
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Who wrote the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Shakespeare
George Orwell
J.K. Rowling
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What's the weirdly cool reason scientists shoot ballistic gelatin?
To mimic how bullets move through real human flesh
To see if gelatin can be used as body armor
To test if ghosts leave bullet holes
Because Jello fights are banned in science labs
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Why did surgeons historically practice on cadavers instead of live animals?
Because animals wouldn't lie still long enough
To learn on human anatomy without ethical risk
Because cadavers don't bite
Because animals rights activists protested too much
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Why use pigs for testing
They have organs most like humans
Filthy
In abundance
Dirty
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Chapter 5 Beyond the black box: Airplane crashes - How do we learn what happened to caused the crash
Black box recording
Body plotting
All of the above
Human wreckage wounds
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Chapter 5: How can you tell if a crash was caused by a bomb?
Burns
All of the above
Shards and fragements
X-Ray of cadavers
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Chapter 11: In what year was cremation allowed for Catholics
Not allowed to this day
1963
1974
1987
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Chapter 6 The cadaver who joined the army: What animals in course of history have been used for gun injury?
Dogs
All of the above
Rabbits
Pigs and beavers
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Where is the soul? Check all that apply
Babylonians liver
Mesopotamiansemotions liver and intellect to the heart
Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Egyptian's Heart
Greece heart versus brain
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Chapter 8: What was one reason corpses were stolen from graves in the 1800's?
To be sold in medical schools for dissection
To be used in fertilizer
To scare towns into passing sctricter cemetary laws
For use in horror plays and stage effects
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Chapter 4 Dead man driving: Cadavers and test dummy's are good at
Determines how much force a body can take
Handling pain
All of the above
Helping to make safer cars
