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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Dead Man Driving.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Face lift refresher.
(b) Blunt force damage.
(c) Brain trauma.
(d) Wound repair.

2. 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?
(a) Organ decay.
(b) Tissue decay.
(c) Gas buildup.
(d) Formaldehyde.

3. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?
(a) A month.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) A week.

4. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Sweet and cloying.
(b) Nauseating and sharp.
(c) Heady and unlike anything else.
(d) Bitter and rough.

5. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Dead soldiers.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Disinterred dead people.
(d) Executed criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

2. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

3. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

4. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

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

(see the answer key)

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