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

2. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Bacteria digesting internal organs.
(b) Tissue decomposition.
(c) Release of stomach gases.
(d) Maggots.

3. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?
(a) Body snatchers.
(b) Resurrectionists.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Hoodlums.

4. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Hands.
(b) Feet.
(c) Faces.
(d) Torsos.

5. What does Marliena Marignani say is the advantage of working on cadavers?
(a) They let you try the procedure over and over again.
(b) She does not have to interact with them.
(c) They do not bleed.
(d) They cannot sue for malpractice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?

2. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

4. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

5. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?

(see the answer key)

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