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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Remains of the Author.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Heirlooms.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Clothing.

2. 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 thinks of them as being made of wax.
(c) She tells herself that she's practicing so she can get it right when it matters.
(d) She tells herself again and again that they wanted this.

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

4. What was the measure of death before brain death was understood?
(a) A coma that lasted more than six months.
(b) Absence of brain activity.
(c) Absence of a heartbeat.
(d) Absence of breathing.

5. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Audiences.
(c) Artists.
(d) Policemen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much access do most hospitals have to cadavers to work on?

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

4. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?

5. What did dummies prove to investigators?

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