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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 participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Presenting papers.
(b) Practicing and being critiqued.
(c) Singing and reading.
(d) Teaching sections.

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

3. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Opera.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Stand-up comedy.
(d) Street theatre.

4. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Herophilus.
(b) Asclepius.
(c) Sarpedon.
(d) Apollo.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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