Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Mary Roach
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Mary Roach
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Life After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?
(a) A memorial service for unnamed cadavers.
(b) A face-lift refresher.
(c) Anatomy training.
(d) Training for people who talk with patients about giving their bodies to science.

2. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Families.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Cadavers.
(d) Sorrow.

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

4. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?
(a) Training.
(b) Accurate medical knowledge.
(c) Anesthesia.
(d) Assistants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What difficulty occurs when patients insist on experienced doctors?

2. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

3. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?

4. What does Mary Roach say patients at teaching hospitals would get, before 1800?

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

(see the answer key)

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