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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. What class does Mary Roach attend in order to talk with surgeons who worked on decapitated heads?
(a) Wound repair.
(b) Blunt force damage.
(c) Brain trauma.
(d) Face lift refresher.

2. How were Civil War soldiers treated when they died, in Mary Roach's account?
(a) They were buried in Arlington.
(b) They were shipped home and buried.
(c) They were mummified and collected.
(d) They were buried where they fell.

3. What was Mary Roach surprised to learn about surgery?
(a) Sometimes practice cadavers are reclaimed by their families after training surgery.
(b) Most surgeries are done by interns.
(c) Most surgeons learn new things even in live surgeries.
(d) Most cases of malpractice come from surgery.

4. How often do families renege on their consent, according to Mike Walsh?
(a) All the time.
(b) Often.
(c) Not very often.
(d) Hardly ever.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do researchers measure by creating typical scenarios?

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

3. How does Mary Roach characterize the first stage of decay in a cadaver?

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

5. What, in Robert White's experience, slows cellular damage to the dead brain?

(see the answer key)

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