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

2. Who do researchers help with their work at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Criminal investigations.
(b) Families.
(c) Cancer research.
(d) Raw science.

3. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Artists.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Audiences.
(d) Scientists.

4. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) Often.
(b) Hardly ever.
(c) Not very often.
(d) All the time.

5. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) A writer.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(d) A surgeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

2. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

3. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

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

5. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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