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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Eat Me.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mike Walsh say he typically tells families?
(a) All the details of the study including long-term follow-up.
(b) More than they need to know about their loved one.
(c) Just the minimum facts.
(d) Nothing.

3. Why are surgeons nervous, according to Mary Roach?
(a) They are usually timed.
(b) They only have a limited number of attempts to work with cadavers.
(c) They are superstitious.
(d) Because they are working with human remains.

4. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Families.
(c) Cadavers.
(d) Teachers.

5. Who is Hugh Patterson?
(a) The head of the willed body program of UCSF Medical School.
(b) A cadaver.
(c) A writer.
(d) A surgeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has resulted from car safety studies with cadavers, according to Mary Roach?

2. What was Frederick Zugibe's conclusion?

3. What is anastomosis?

4. How long until a mellified man can be put to use?

5. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

(see the answer key)

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