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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. When does 'human wreckage' become useful to an investigation?
(a) When ships sink and human remains float.
(b) When an airplane's black box is not conclusive or missing.
(c) When investigators are trying to distinguish between structural failure and bombs in airplanes.
(d) When investigators are looking for evidence of explosives in buildings.

2. How will a person's wounds tell a different story, according to Mary Roach's reading on pathology?
(a) Depending on whether a plane was bombed or simply crashed.
(b) Depending on where they sat in a plane.
(c) Depending on how long it took for a ship to sink.
(d) Depending on whether the person was one of the first to be impacted in a crash.

3. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Lose it in the ocean.
(b) Drop it out of a plane.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Blow it up.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is objectification, according to Mary Roach?

3. Who is Hugh Patterson?

4. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

5. What led Shanahan away from thinking that TWA Flight 800 was an explosion?

(see the answer key)

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