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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Life After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Brain trauma.
(b) Face lift refresher.
(c) Blunt force damage.
(d) Wound repair.

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

3. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?
(a) Bitter and rough.
(b) Sweet and cloying.
(c) Heady and unlike anything else.
(d) Nauseating and sharp.

4. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were mummified and collected.
(c) They were buried where they fell.
(d) They were shipped home and buried.

5. Who was the 'father of anatomy'?
(a) Asclepius.
(b) Sarpedon.
(c) Herophilus.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

2. What were people called who stole bodies to sell them to scientists?

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

5. How does Mary Roach characterize the second stage of decay in a cadaver?

(see the answer key)

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