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

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

3. What does UM006 fall onto?
(a) A steering wheel.
(b) A cushion.
(c) The floor.
(d) A dashboard.

4. What does Mary Roach say, in commenting on Frederick Zugibe's work, is the highest office?
(a) Spreading democracy.
(b) Spreading religion.
(c) Having faith.
(d) Relieving pain.

5. Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Book of the Dead.
(c) The Old Testament.
(d) The Chinese Materia Medica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

2. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?

3. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?

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

5. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

(see the answer key)

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