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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 dead relatives.
(c) Street people.
(d) Their students.

2. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Alcibiades.
(c) Ptolemy I.
(d) Nero.

3. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His former patients.
(b) His old friends.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His former professors.

4. How does Mary Roach describe the way the surgeons see the exercise of working on cadavers?
(a) As a last chance to learn techniques.
(b) As a form of punishment.
(c) As a rare opportunity.
(d) As a demotion from surgery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

3. What pushes the viscous liquid up the cadaver's windpipe, in the case of the 75-year-old man Mary Roach saw students preparing at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science?

4. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

5. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?

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