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

2. What were the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) The test was inconclusive.
(b) The 45-caliber rifle was more effective than the 30.
(c) The 30-caliber rifle was deadlier than the 45.
(d) The 30-caliber rifle was more effective than the 45.

3. Where did 18th-century British schools get their cadavers?
(a) Disinterred dead people.
(b) Executed criminals.
(c) Suicides.
(d) Dead soldiers.

4. How does Mary Roach describe the air with which dissections were performed in the 18th century?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Stand-up comedy.
(c) Street theatre.
(d) Opera.

5. What was UM006 hit with?
(a) A pile of bricks.
(b) A linear impactor.
(c) A car.
(d) A pipe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does technology emulate the smell of dead bodies?

3. Who did Robert Knox buy corpses from?

4. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

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

(see the answer key)

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