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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. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?
(a) Purge.
(b) Overflow.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Liquid.

2. 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?
(a) Organ decay.
(b) Gas buildup.
(c) Formaldehyde.
(d) Tissue decay.

3. When did injury analysis begin?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1988.

4. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Fetal.
(b) Driving.
(c) Lying down.
(d) Sprawling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

2. What does Mary Roach say surgeons operated without before the 1800s?

3. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?

4. What kind of impact does UM006 suffer?

5. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?

(see the answer key)

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