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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. What was Marlene DeMaio using cadavers to test?
(a) Boots.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Body armor.
(d) Bullet-proof vests.

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

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

4. Who is UM006?
(a) A scientist studying human impacts.
(b) A cadaver in an impact study.
(c) A building where scientists study impacts on human bodies.
(d) A patient in an impact study.

5. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Nero.
(d) Ptolemy I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students call the viscous liquid that comes from the cadaver's mouth?

2. How does Mary Roach describe the smell of death?

3. What do researchers monitor at the University of Tennessee?

4. What do students at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science do to cadavers' mouths?

5. Who is Hugh Patterson?

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