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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Theresa, the attendant, say she copes with working with cadavers?
(a) She tells herself the story of the person's life.
(b) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.
(c) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(d) She thinks of them as being made of wax.

2. Why does neurologist Dennis Tobin believe people fall down when shot?
(a) Because the force of even a small caliber shot is disorienting.
(b) Because the body's electrochemical balance is thrown off.
(c) Because the brain registers the wound and shuts down momentarily.
(d) Because well-placed shots can destroy nerve centers.

3. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Roll bars.
(b) Safer doors.
(c) Safer windshields.
(d) Safer tires.

4. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?
(a) The width of a bullet wound measured in terms of the surgical instruments it will admit.
(b) The flesh that flows into the opening made by a bullet.
(c) The depth of a bullet wound.
(d) The opening made by a bullet.

5. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Blunt force damage.
(b) Brain trauma.
(c) Face lift refresher.
(d) Wound repair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did dummies prove to investigators?

3. What are researchers trying to determine by studying impacts?

4. How long does the bloat stage of decomposition last?

5. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?

(see the answer key)

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