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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 is objectification, according to Mary Roach?
(a) A coping mechanism.
(b) A way to keep from cracking up during a procedure.
(c) A means of seeing humanity even in the cadaver.
(d) A technique for keeping control during surgery.

2. What causes bloat in cadavers?
(a) Maggots.
(b) Bacteria digesting internal organs.
(c) Tissue decomposition.
(d) Release of stomach gases.

3. What was George Hay's 1888 proposal for human remains?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Medical training.
(c) Building material.
(d) Scientific study.

4. What did Frederick Zugibe say about Dr. Pierre Barbet's work?
(a) That tests in which live people are strapped to crosses are ineffective.
(b) That he had incorrectly located Destot's place.
(c) That he had used the wrong chemicals in his analysis.
(d) That he had been unethical in his use of cadavers.

5. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?
(a) Blow it up.
(b) Lose it in the ocean.
(c) Shoot it.
(d) Drop it out of a plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

2. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

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

4. What kinds of injuries have cadavers helped scientists understand?

5. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

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