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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the passengers' burns rule out for Shanahan?
(a) Missile attack.
(b) Explosion.
(c) Death on impact.
(d) On-board fire.

2. When does Mary Roach say patients were better off ignoring doctors' advice?
(a) When advised to eat their own flesh.
(b) When advised to use ancestors for medicines.
(c) When advised to eat excrement.
(d) When advised to be bled.

3. What did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Embalming.
(b) Mortuary science.
(c) Resurrection.
(d) Revitalization.

4. What is the basis for calls to stop cadaver research?
(a) Ethics.
(b) Disclosure.
(c) Expense.
(d) Families would object to it.

5. What did Jean Baptiste Vincent Laborde attempt?
(a) Electrifying severed heads.
(b) Measuring the decrease of electrical activity in a severed head.
(c) Infusing blood into severed heads.
(d) Making a severed head blink.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were surgeons promoted before the 1800s?

3. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

4. What is a 'temporary stretch cavity'?

5. What did attempts to determine death typically entail, before modern science?

(see the answer key)

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