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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 did Brown-Sequard's test of Legallois' notion appear to show?
(a) No movement in canine or human heads.
(b) Speech in a child's head.
(c) Response in a human head.
(d) Voluntary movement in a dog's head.

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

3. What percentage of bodies donated to science are used for anatomy lab lessons?
(a) 60%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 80%.

4. Who ended the belief in severed head consciousness?
(a) Brown-Sequard.
(b) George Martin.
(c) Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin.
(d) Legallois.

5. What kind of resistance did DeMaio meet over using cadavers, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Federal.
(b) Bureaucratic.
(c) Sociopolitical.
(d) Economic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frederick Zugibe test?

2. When are apes more useful than cadavers in studies?

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

4. What distinguishes corpses in disasters caused by explosions?

5. What did Mary Roach attend at UCSF?

(see the answer key)

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