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

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

3. When did Father Armaillhac subject the Shroud of Turin to scientific study?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1931.

4. What position is UM006 placed in for the study?
(a) Sprawling.
(b) Driving.
(c) Lying down.
(d) Fetal.

5. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?
(a) That the stains were not authentic.
(b) That the Shroud was a forgery.
(c) That the second stream was from washing a wound.
(d) That the original stream was not from Christ repositioning himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did participants take turns doing at the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

2. Who did the 'father of anatomy' dissect?

3. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?

4. For how long after death can internal organs be identified?

5. What was Lowden not allowed to do?

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