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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 did Thomas Holmes perfect?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Mortuary science.
(c) Resurrection.
(d) Embalming.

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

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

4. What did the army hope for the 30-caliber rifle?
(a) That with new bullets, it would be more destructive than the 45-caliber.
(b) That it would kill from a greater distance than the 45-caliber.
(c) That it would be deadlier than the 45-caliber.
(d) That it would have the same stopping power as the 45-caliber.

5. Laws prevented people from stealing what from graves?
(a) Heirlooms.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?

2. The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the home to the only facility that does what?

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

4. What does Mary Roach say is the least acceptable thing you can do with a cadaver?

5. How do resident surgeons treat cadavers, in Mary Roach's account?

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