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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. What evidence does Shanahan use to come to this conclusion?
(a) Bodies without clothes.
(b) Burns.
(c) Torn aortas.
(d) Fragmented bodies.

2. What does objectification provide surgeons with, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Clear visualization.
(b) Control.
(c) Emotional distance.
(d) Freedom from liability.

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

4. How does Mary Roach characterize the third stage of decay in a cadaver?
(a) Persistence of putrescent odor.
(b) Bloat with large numbers of maggots.
(c) Skin sloughing off, with maggots beneath the surface.
(d) Liquidation of internal organs.

5. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?
(a) Family origins of cadavers.
(b) The moment of death of tissues.
(c) Stages of chemical composition.
(d) Origins and movements of tissues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?

2. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

3. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science stuff cadavers' eyes with?

4. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?

5. Who does Mary Roach say was often in attendance at surgeries?

(see the answer key)

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