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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Life After Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mary Roach touched by at the event at UCSF?
(a) A cadaver's apparent patience.
(b) A cadaver's family's satisfaction.
(c) A tribute to a cadaver.
(d) A demonstration on a cadaver.

2. How were early anatomists supposed to dispose of human remains?
(a) By feeding it to dogs.
(b) By selling them as meat.
(c) By eating them.
(d) By burying them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who permitted anatomists to cut open executed criminals, in Mary Roach's account?

2. What does Mary Roach wonder about the cadavers?

3. What is Roach's preliminary conclusion about using cadavers for training?

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

5. What was conspicuously absent from the event Mary Roach attended at UCSF?

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