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

2. Why is the British practice for avoiding consent impractical, according to Mary Roach?
(a) Because it raises the cost through litigation from families.
(b) Because it speaks on the cadaver's behalf.
(c) Because some research requires whole bodies.
(d) Because it relies on legal sophistries.

3. When did McDougal perform his experiments?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1826.

4. How does Mary Roach explain the results of Le Grande's tests?
(a) Stopping power could not be judged on cadavers.
(b) Cadaver flesh registered bullet wounds differently than live people.
(c) Rifle shots knocked the cadavers over more easily than real people.
(d) It took more shots to knock cadavers over than real people in battle situations.

5. What did Frederick Zugibe test?
(a) The ability of the wrist or hand to support a person's weight.
(b) The ability of crucified people to move.
(c) The stains a crucified person will make on a shroud.
(d) The chemistry of the Shroud of Turin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the intensive care unit (ICU) staff do for H?

2. What have medical schools done in the past decade, according to Mary Roach?

3. How does Mary Roach describe the possibility of testing for consciousness in severed heads?

4. What did Robert White have some success with?

5. What kind of properties does Mary Roach say menstrual blood was thought to have?

(see the answer key)

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