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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Holy Cadaver.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?
(a) For theme parks and haunted houses.
(b) To study the receptors in flies and other insects.
(c) To attract flies to be studied.
(d) To train dogs to find bodies.

2. What do researchers risk if they omit details of their research on cadavers?
(a) Losing cadavers to work with in the future.
(b) Offending families later.
(c) Perjuring themselves.
(d) Violating ethics laws.

3. What did Frederick Zugibe test?
(a) The ability of crucified people to move.
(b) The stains a crucified person will make on a shroud.
(c) The chemistry of the Shroud of Turin.
(d) The ability of the wrist or hand to support a person's weight.

4. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?
(a) Executed criminals.
(b) Live criminals.
(c) Disinterred dead people.
(d) Unwilling victims.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

3. What was Barbet skeptical about?

4. What was UM006 hit with?

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

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