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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Holy Cadaver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Teaching sections.
(b) Singing and reading.
(c) Presenting papers.
(d) Practicing and being critiqued.

2. Whom does Mary Roach say British surgeons began to dissect, when cadaver supply ran low?
(a) Street people.
(b) Animals.
(c) Their dead relatives.
(d) Their students.

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(b) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(c) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(d) Liquidation of internal organs.

4. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The opening made by a bullet.
(b) The depth of a bullet wound.
(c) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(d) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.

5. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Unwilling victims.
(b) Disinterred dead people.
(c) Live criminals.
(d) Executed criminals.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

4. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

5. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

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