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

2. Who would Sir Astley Cooper have dug up?
(a) His former professors.
(b) His former patients.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His old friends.

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

4. Why are animals used exclusively?
(a) Because the studies would be sacrilegious with human cadavers.
(b) Because children are not donated to science.
(c) Because the studies are so disfiguring.
(d) Because the studies are so invasive.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?

3. Why, in Mary Roach's account, is cadaver research compelling?

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

5. What causes bloat in cadavers?

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