1. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?
(a) Return stolen cadavers to their graves.
(b) Cadaver reanimation.
(c) Field research on human body decay.
(d) Trade in cadaver tissues.

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

3. What was Lowden threatened with if he fired upon cadaver legs?
(a) Court martial.
(b) Arrest.
(c) Defunding.
(d) Discharge.

4. What does surgeon Marliena Marignani find difficult to work with?
(a) Faces.
(b) Feet.
(c) Hands.
(d) Torsos.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

3. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

4. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?

5. Why is Shanahan not afraid of air travel?

(see the answer key)

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